Blog Updates and inspiration

We’ll keep this short, as the video tells the story. If there was a theme of the 2013 Fourth Estate Summit, it was living the best dream for your life. That’s why we invited the guys from The Buried Life along – you may well know them: they have a show on MTV, they’re ridiculously […]

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. Martino sits under a tree next to his home gingerly cupping a booklet in his hand. A small face stares back at him from the page. He is holding […]

After Joseph Kony and his rebel army terrorized northern Uganda, many women like Mend’s Akulu Nancy struggled to support themselves and their families. But now she has reason to smile. With the money Nancy has made from Mend, she has been able to make a number of investments. She pays for school fees and uniforms […]

Some of our staff recently had the opportunity to go to China. How come? I asked our mobilization and communications strategist Hailey Mitsui-Davis. Hi Hailey! So you and a couple of other Invisible Children staff recently returned from a trip to China. What were you guys doing out there? Ben, our CEO, Maggie, who works […]

++ UPDATE 5/6/14: Watch a recording of the hearing here ++ Today at 10am ET, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on African Affairs will hold a hearing about the ongoing crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR). The aim of the hearing is to keep the CAR crisis on the radar of the U.S. Government and to better identify how […]

  News continues to come from Nigeria in regards to the story of 234 schoolgirls (a number that was originally thought to be closer to 100) abducted and taken as ‘wives’ for Boko Haram militants. There have been reports of the abductors firing celebratory gunshots following scenes of mass marriages, with the young women being […]

The regional dry season in central Africa has historically seen spikes in LRA activity during which the rebel group becomes desperate for food and resorts to more frequent and aggressive looting of communities. Over the last week, groups of LRA in CAR and DRC carried out significant raids on civilians. The incidents: April 25th: At […]

Question: what do Beyoncé , Hillary Clinton, and Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe have in common? Answer: this year, they all made it on to Time magazine’s 100 most influential list. Sister Rosemary has spent 30 years serving in the epicentre of violent wars in South Sudan and Uganda.  She ‘openly defied’ Joseph Kony while he was committing […]

Earlier this month six Ugandans escaped the LRA and returned home to Uganda, including two male combatants, three children and their brave mother. This is their story.   Tabu Simon was abducted from his home in Kitgum, Uganda in 1998 at the age of 13 after the LRA killed his father. He has spent the last […]

Does the U.S. government serve its ordinary citizens, or does it pander to the interests of the rich and powerful? A recent study (analysed in this Quartz article) has claimed that the decisions made by U.S. government are not based on the concerns of average people, but on the desires of the elite. It’s a […]