Kid President advises Jane Lynch on everything 2014
To say that we are extremely excited to premiere this exclusive video we made with our heroes Kid President and Jane Lynch… well, it would be a MASSIVE understatement. Enter for your chance to win an exclusive pep talk from Kid President and a special Glee experience all while supporting Invisible Children’s lifesaving work: http://inv.fm/glee It’s […]
Looking to move to Mars?
I have some bad news. You’ve missed the deadline to apply to be a part of the first human colony on Mars. In fact, Mars One has just whittled the 200,000+ candidates down to a (very) long list of 1,058. Opinion in the scientific community is split as to whether the project has a hope of […]
What we’re reading: The Alchemist
[Disclaimer: Most book reviews are written for one of two reasons. You either love the book or you hate it. In true millennial fashion, I felt lukewarm. So here we are.] Here at Invisible Children, we love a good story. So it’s no surprise that we also love a good book (it may be important […]
11 things you don’t know about Invisible Children
I have progressively found that when I mention a random fact about Invisible Children to someone (friend, husband, person on the street), they’re surprised. Thus, this helpful list of tidbits. 1. We have six offices in Africa (Bangui, Obo, Dungu, Gulu, Pader, and Kampala), and one in San Diego, CA. 2. We have been a company […]
How do you define yourself?
When Lizzie Velásquez was in high school, someone posted a video labeling her the world’s ugliest woman. It was 8 seconds long and it went viral. Join me in being utterly outraged. Lizzie has a condition that is so rare that only two other people are known to have it; so rare that it doesn’t […]
WE WERE ON A BREAK, and here’s what we did on it
Much like yourself, we just returned from the holiday break. It’s been a little difficult to return to the office with San Diego being one of the only warm places in the country, but we’re committed to the work, alas here we are. I asked my colleagues what they got up to over the break […]
A new beginning // Odong Francis
Every child abducted by Joseph Kony’s rebel army is robbed of his childhood and a normal life — until he escapes. This is the story of a new beginning. The LRA rebels forcibly broke down the door of Odong Francis’s house in the middle of a January 2000 night, when Francis was 10 years old. […]
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The terrible violence in CAR makes our work more important than ever
If you’ve flipped/clicked through a newspaper, scrolled through your Twitter feed, or turned on any news channel in the last few days, you’ve undoubtedly been bombarded with headlines about the Central African Republic (CAR). Unrest, which began when the rebel group Seleka (now referred to as ex-Seleka to reflect the group’s splintering over the past […]