Stories of the missing // Ocitti Geoffrey #zeroLRA
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. Okera Richard’s older brother, Ocitti Geoffrey, was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in 1991. Geoffrey was 17 years old then. “He had left home with one of our […]
Is this still a thing?
Behind Invisible Children’s official Facebook page are real people, and I am one of them. And as I sift through the comments on our timeline, this is what I see the most: “Is this still a thing?” The KONY 2012 campaign began and ended in 2012. But Invisible Children has been a company since 2004, and will continue […]
Blindfold Magazine features former child solider turned rapper
Blindfold Magazine recently published an article featuring Emmanuel Jal, an internationally known rapper who is a former Sudanese child soldier. Jal’s dark and intangibly painful past gives him every excuse to be filled with a need for hateful revenge, but instead he says, “Now I’m fighting a different war: education and peace, coexistence, equality. There’s […]
Creating Peace
This International Day of Peace, two members of the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative (ARLPI) shared their insights on peace in northern Uganda. Acknowledging the tragedy of the Lord’s Resistance Army conflict, they are hopeful that reconciliation and an eventual end to the violence will bring healing to the communities that have suffered and are […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // The surprising science of happiness
Ah, yes. We all love a good formula for happiness. This time, Harvard professor Dan Gilbert in his TED Talk “The surprising science of happiness” lays out an unusual roadmap to that ever-elusive pot-o’-gold at the end of the happiness rainbow: the prefrontal cortex. According to Gilbert’s extensive and compelling research, what we think will […]
What we’re reading // In the Heart of Life
The Eldon’s are like family to Invisible Children. Not only because Kathy Eldon and Amy Eldon Turteltaub spoke at the 2013 Fourth Estate Leadership Summit, but because Invisible Children exists as an organization only because of the Eldon’s: Dan Eldon, specifically. Dan Eldon was a young artist, activist, and adventurer committed to documenting the horrific famine in […]
A guide to the next 150 years
No one knows what the future holds, but that doesn’t mean we can’t guess. BBC Future compiled 40 intriguing predictions made by scientists, politicians, journalists, bloggers and other assorted pundits in recent years about the shape of the world from 2013 to 2150. (Photo credit: BBC)
ϟ FLASH ALERT: How Opondo escaped the LRA after 15 years of captivity
June 21, 1998 LRA rebels raided Lamwolode, Uganda, and brutally kidnapped a ten-year-old boy named Opondo. He was stolen from his family, forced to kill innocent civilians, and brainwashed into believing that escape was impossible. March 2013 15 years later, while listening to an Invisible Children sponsored program on UBC Shortwave radio, Opondo overheard former […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // How can young people make an impact?
When TED Radio Hour (a co-production of NPR and TED) explored what defines millennials in their segment, “The Next Greatest Generation?,” they looked to Natalie Warne’s 2011 TEDxTeen talk for an answer. Entitled “How can young people make an impact?,” Natalie recounts her experiences as a young teenage activist organizing rallies, mobilizing fellow activists all […]
What we’re reading // Shake the World
Has anyone ever told you that if you choose a job you love, you will never have to work a day in your life? But then you get a job, and while you love it, it still definitely feels like work? Then get ready to go purchase the book I’m about to discuss because it […]