Blog Updates and inspiration

Lili Cairl’s favorite quote is: “Be more concerned with what you can do for others instead of what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results.” – John Wooden Today, we are thrilled to surprise Lili (age 17) with a much-deserved all-expenses-paid trip to Uganda as the winner of our two week […]

What’s bigger than your best dream? Life, according to Jason Russell. This August, during Invisible Children’s Fourth Estate Leadership Summit, Jason spoke to a crowd of more than 1,500 activists, urging them to pursue their goals and aspirations, but understanding that their life was bigger than their best dream for it. More often than not […]

Abductions by Joseph Kony’s rebel army have contributed to thousands of missing children throughout East and central Africa. This is a story of one still missing. Anek Judita had suffered a stroke and her words were slow and halted as she recounted the story of her daughter’s abduction. Akello Acii was only 12 years old […]

Celebrate everything. Every escape. Every name. Every life. On April 13, 2013,  Clementine and Marie Francine were rescued from the LRA along with one of Kony’s children, a six year old boy. Both women had been forced “wives” of Joseph Kony. Marie Francine, 20, explained that Okello Joseph Kony was not her son but was […]

A month ago, we launched our global #zeroLRA campaign. In the past 30 days, you set up your fundraising page, you organized fundraisers, you watched us give away our first of seven free trips to Uganda, and you helped us raise over $154,000 for the men, women, and children still held captive by Kony’s LRA. […]

Dear global supporters, One of our fellow interns from this past summer has a tattoo of the world on her back. It has no countries, no borders. Only the edges of continents shaped by the oceans around them. When asked why the tattoo has no borders, she smiles and says, “Because we don’t belong to […]

Abductions by Joseph Kony’s rebel army have contributed to thousands of missing children throughout East and central Africa. This is a story of one still missing. Ocora Geoffrey was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in June of 1993. He was 15 years old, studying at a secondary school in Atanga. His older brother, Ocaya […]

This is the post we will update with the leaderboard for the #zeroLRA trips to Uganda. The following was updated at 2:05 PM PST on December 28: 01. Erica Shay – $10,000 02. Samantha Hammer – $2,913 03. Nick Ventura – $1,990 04. Erin Deeley – $1,593 05. Cierra Webb – $950 ++ Every two […]

Two weeks ago was the official launch of our #zeroLRA campaign and our supporters efforts are in full swing. We are encouraging everyone to get creative with their fundraising and they are taking that message to heart – Laura Shkouratoff being no exception. This 15-year-old from Santa Clara, California has a lot of dreams…to become […]

A sign at Anaka Secondary School reminds us that providing educational opportunities continues to be an important step for empowering the future leaders of Uganda.