Protecting Pangolins || A Conservation Success Story
What do you get when you cross an anteater with a pinecone? A pangolin. You may recognize the name, since this strange-looking animal is making a big, adorable, online splash lately. Maybe, like us, you’ve been binge-watching baby pangolin videos, pangolins walking like T-Rexes, or riding on their mother’s tails. If you are a true […]
Heading Home: How a Community Rallied to Help LRA Escapees
“We welcome people who have come out of the bush because they are our brothers and sisters. This woman needed assistance with her children and we were trained by Invisible Children to help them to come out of the bush and care for them. She is one of us.” –Emmanuel, Congolese Peace Committee President Just […]
Meet the Team || Ernest and Nastasia
You may not be aware but there are some new faces working at Invisible Children these days! We want to take a moment to let you get to know a couple of the newest members of our team. In our Washington DC headquarters, we’ve loved getting to know the wonderful Nastasia (affectionately known to us […]
Community Action Plans: Using Local Genius to Avoid Crisis
What would you do if you were the leader of a small community in central Africa and heard that the LRA had just attacked a neighboring village and was likely headed your way? Would you start running through the town yelling for people to evacuate? Would you try to arm the community and prepare to […]
Remembering Our Friend Nate
Eight years ago today, 74 people were killed in a series of terrorist bombings in Kampala, Uganda. One of those killed was an American named Nate Henn. He was our friend. Before his death, Nate had dedicated almost two years of his life as a volunteer roadie with Invisible Children. In the spring of 2010, […]
Celebration in Obo, CAR || Day of the African Child
On June 16, while we here in DC were just waking up, children in Nairobi, Kenya were busy celebrating International Day of the African Child through song, dance, and a rap battle. At the same time, hundreds were gathering in Batsinda, Rwanda for a commemorative walk that ended in a dance and music celebration. In […]
Your new favorite holiday: World Refugee Day
You may not have realized when you woke up this morning that today is not your typical Wednesday. In fact, today is the 18th annual World Refugee Day. While that may not give you an excuse to indulge your sugar addiction, like on National Donut day, or require you to plan a Star Wars movie […]
Escaping LRA Captivity
On April 20, two boys and two girls who were being held captive by a group of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) fighters escaped in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As they fled, their captors shot at them, wounding one of the girls. The others managed to get away ending up […]
Leymah Gbowee || Building Peace in a War-Making World
A couple of weeks ago one of our heroes, Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee, gave the commencement address at American University’s School of International Service here in Washington, DC and, of course, our team was excited to hear from her. Leymah Gbowee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her work leading a powerful […]
Invisible Children Opposes Rescission of Complex Crises Fund
This week, Invisible Children joined more than thirty other organizations to urge Congress to oppose a White House proposal to rescind $30 million from the Complex Crises Fund. READ THE LETTER 34 ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING INVISIBLE CHILDREN, SENT TO CONGRESS You probably have a few questions about what’s going on, what it means, and why it […]