Blog Updates and inspiration

The field of crisis mapping is a relatively new field, but there’s no denying that it’s growing and having a significant impact on the world. The advantages of crisis mapping are extensive: they offer a way for information to be published directly and instantly from the target region (called crowd-sourcing), they allow for massive amounts […]

A few days before the opening ceremony of the Olympics in London, British street artist Banksy returned to work and surprised the streets with two new pieces dedicated to the worldly event. So themed, that Banksy. Banksy has been a source of influence over here at the Invisible Children office. Tyler, our Lead Designer and […]

The LRA Crisis Tracker, a joint project of Invisible Children and Resolve, just released its Mid-Year Security Brief (PDF). Below we highlight a couple of trends and conclusions that we can see in LRA activity. Resolve’s blog has a full summary of the conclusions. LRA abductions are increasing, but trends indicate they’re mostly abducting people […]

The Invisible Children (IC) Livelihood team has started up 45 Village Saving and Loan Association (VSLA) groups recently in Bobi and Lakwana. In VSLA, community members are able to pool their money and take out small loans to start up businesses. After several months of operating the new business, members pay back the loan with […]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Africa this week and plans to make a stop in Uganda to meet with President Yoweri Museveni. In addition to pressing issues like the breakdown of democracy in Uganda and the turmoil in Somalia, Secretary Clinton also plans to discuss the LRA with the Ugandan President. This […]

For an hour today I successfully unglued my eyes from multiple screens of live London Olympics streams to watch a documentary from Coca-Cola about the making of their Olympics song “Anywhere In The World” by producer/guitarist/DJ-wonderchild Mark Ronson and hip-hop/soul/pop/grime amalgam Katy B. Coca-Cola is no stranger to capitalizing on a good worldwide sport competition […]

We work really hard, and play sorta hard. Mainly we work. But when we discovered tarp surfing thanks to our friends in Uganda, we had to carve out some play time. And now it’s all we want to do. Welcome to summer. See Ugandans showing us how it’s done here. Want our summer-y shirts? We […]

It’s been quite some time since we released a music video for you guys, so we’re exponentially excited to share this video with you and hope that this two-parter from Middle Brother makes up for the delay. These guys are always hilarious and have such a loving carefree spirit about them. It’s evident when you […]

Teams in Uganda are trying to track down anyone who came into contact with patients infected with the Ebola virus, which has killed at least 14 people in the last three weeks. Ebola, one of the most virulent diseases in the world, is spread by close personal contact and can kill up to 90% of […]

Total Signatures: 78 Our thanks to all of the U.S. Representatives who signed the letter to President Obama, urging him to attend a meeting on the LRA with regional governments and other international leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this fall. We appreciate that our leaders took the initiative by pledging their […]