Blog Updates and inspiration

The LRA Crisis Tracker is a real-time mapping platform and data collection system created to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to the atrocities of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Using information sourced from Invisible Children’s Early Warning Radio Network, UN agencies, and local NGOs, this tool allows for better response from governments, policy-makers, and humanitarian […]

We delivered your pledges to stop Kony to the United Nations in June, but we’re still not done with our friends at the UN. Neither is Beyonce. The 16-time Grammy Award winner is teaming up with the UN for this year’s World Humanitarian Day to shine a spotlight on humanitarian work and encourage people around […]

Found on Aljazeera: Over the past two weeks, the threat of an attack on Goma – the provincial capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s restive North Kivu province – by M23 rebels has loomed. The United Nations and the Congolese government army (FARDC) have deployed tanks and other heavy weaponry around the city in […]

Photography as an art form transcends cultures, languages and history because of it’s ability to express the various emotions and circumstances of a captured moment. In his collection, “Avenue Patrice Lumumba,” South African photographer Guy Tillim brings to surface the the clash of life’s modernization and the strong roots harbored from the past of Africa’s many […]

[Invisible Children Music: We firmly believe that music has a necessary role in giving social movements tremendous amounts of momentum. It is a universal language, and at Invisible Children, it’s important for us to be a part of that language.] Good morning Monday Mini Mixtape Music Lovers. As summer winds down (I said it!! Don’t […]

We understand the impact of giving here at Invisible Children. So did Aaron Collins. On July 7, 2012—just three weeks after his 30th birthday—Aaron passed away. During his life, Aaron made a point to leave a powerful and positive impression on each person he met. Once, after he received poor service from an impolite waitress, he […]

Yesterday, we celebrated a major victory as the U.S. Senate passed the KONY 2012 resolution supporting President Obama’s strategy to stop the LRA. Originally introduced in March 2012, the resolution (S.Res.402) does several important things: it condemns Kony’s atrocities, calls for increased U.S. efforts to help protect civilians, urges President Obama to use funds that Congress has authorized for his LRA strategy, […]

  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in central Africa and is talking Kony. A key State Department official said the trip would be used to encourage President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni to continue the efforts to hunt down the top command of the LRA, said an article published on Thursday. Just what we hoped for. […]

Get ready to be blown away. And feel empowered, inspired, and slightly lazy. This weekend, twenty-year-old Cody Marsh from Shepherdstown, West Virginia will start a solo 20-day, 211-mile hike on the John Muir Trail…barefoot. Cody works at Two Rivers Treads, which promotes efficient and natural running and walking form, and plans to incorporate his passion […]

Meagan Roberge normally teaches at Argyle Secondary school in North Vancouver, Canada, but this summer she is teaching under Invisible Children’s Teacher Exchange (TEX) Program at Sacred Heart school in Gulu, Uganda. She had the chance to share moments of creativity as she taught students a process where water bottles are recycled for planting. The […]