Blog Updates and inspiration

This morning, the United Nations Security Council met to discuss the international community’s continued and shared responsibility to stop Joseph Kony and the violence committed by his Lord’s Resistance Army. The United States’ Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, presented a powerful public speech discussing the progress made with the counter-LRA mission while comparing the […]

We love photo Friday. We love it so much that after years of featuring photos from Uganda, we’re going even bigger. From now on we’ll be rotating our photo Friday amongst all of Invisible Children’s international offices to give you a snapshot (pun intended) of what’s going on at Invisible Children in Uganda and across central Africa. I know, we’re excited too. […]

We are all about impact at Invisible Children. We began by producing media that matters and learned quickly that our advocacy efforts could do so much more for the people of northern Uganda beyond just sharing their stories. We started asking students throughout the world to offer their support for the region’s students. You answered our call […]

For the past week I have been out in Uganda working with our Africa leadership team on program strategy, budgets, and operations. It is in these planning meetings where organizational development occurs and where new plans are created. It was in one of these sessions four years ago that our teams agreed to expand our […]

Here’s one of the most important questions in the world: where on earth is Joseph Kony? On Tuesday, UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon released a statement publicly confirming what Invisible Children has known for a while: he’s hiding in Kafia Kingi. Kafia Kingi is a Sudanese controlled ‘enclave’ bordering South Sudan and the Central African Republic. […]

As the Mend program comes to a close, its beneficiaries are models of empowerment. This is a story about 22 war-affected mothers who utilized skills training and education to improve their quality of life, invest in a sustainable future, and grow as leaders within their families and communities. “I am no longer staying in that […]

Choose your own adventure – Colombia and Ecuador Maybe the question I get most frequently doing this trip is: ‘how did you plan for a trip like this? I am dreaming up something similar and don’t know where to start.’ The answer is: I chose a destination, a time frame, and beyond that, pretty much […]

  Want the latest on the LRA? Today Invisible Children + The Resolve launched the Quarter 1, 2014 LRA Crisis Tracker Security Brief which covers LRA activity between January-March 2014. Here are a few highlights from the analysis: 1. Seasonal spike in LRA attacks Typical for the regional dry season, there has been a spike […]

While there are always plenty of smiles to go around at Invisible Children Uganda’s Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) graduation celebrations, Mauricio’s stood out. As chairperson for his savings group, Mauricio couldn’t be prouder of the successes he and his course mates reached upon the completion of the FAL curriculum. “Functional Adult Literacy has helped us […]

It’s been three weeks since over 200 schoolgirls were abducted from their beds by the terrorist group Boko Haram (who today claimed responsibility for the abductions in a harrowing video where the group smiles and laughs as they tell the world that they plan to “sell” the girls). The story broke, then went silent. As […]