#zeroLRA Uganda trip winner – Carlie Frye
After practicing our Oprah yell, we had the honor and privilege of announcing the winner of our two-week Uganda trip giveaway today to Carlie Frye. Carlie is the third winner, leaving four all-expenses-paid trips to Uganda still up for grabs. This win has been a long time coming for Carlie who has supported Invisible Children since […]
An IC Fantasy Football update from the only girl in the league
Invisible Children is a pretty rad place to work. Besides the incredibly rewarding (intense, exhausting) work we do to reach our goal of #zeroLRA, we have an incredibly innovative office culture that rejuvenates our brains. Dress up days, 4 o’clock Fridays, random employee appreciation days, dance breaks during lunch, the IC running club, and for the […]
M.I.A. Interview on NPR | “I can be in the same category as Jacob”
“I put people on the map that never seen a map.” – M.I.A. Today, we woke up to a fascinating interview on NPR with a brilliant artist who constantly challenges and inspires us – M.I.A. In it, she discusses the realities of being a refugee of war from Sri Lanka in London, the perspective of now having a voice in […]
Reintegration // Supporting Youth Recovery
Seeing a cow, a sports car and a soccer player interacting harmoniously is not a typical site. Unless one is looking at the walls of the World Vision Uganda Children of War Rehabilitation center in Gulu, Uganda. Art therapy has proven to be an incredibly effective method of counseling for youth who have and are […]
How Joseph Kony brainwashes child soldiers
Click to help fund the safe escape and rehabilitation of abducted child soldiers For the past 27 years, Joseph Kony has kidnapped children from their homes and forced them to fight in his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). But in an army comprised mostly of soldiers who did not voluntarily choose to fight, how do Kony […]
Stories of the missing // Opii Christopher #zeroLRA
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. It was on the 10th of October, 1999, that Okidi Charles had dinner with his son Opii Christopher for the last time. At the age of 14, Christopher was […]
Celebrate Everything // Legacy Scholarship Program student Odich Calvin
The tally of those who have lost a family member, been displaced, or been abducted as a result of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) continues to grow decades after the conflict began. In northern Uganda, seven years after the LRA moved into central Africa and South Sudan, it’s difficult to find anyone who has not been affected by […]
10 things I learned while working at Invisible Children
Last summer I boarded a plane bound for San Diego and unknowingly altered the course of my life forever. In the nearly year and a half since, I have been fortunate enough to be a part of one of our generation’s most important endeavors. For the past 10 years Invisible Children has been working tirelessly […]
The 5 times Joseph Kony was almost captured
Sign up to fundraise for programs that dismantle Joseph Kony’s army from within Over the past two weeks, two high-profile articles have come out revolving around counter-LRA operations in central and East Africa. The New Yorker’s “How a Texas Philanthropist Helped Fund the Hunt for Joseph Kony” and The Washington Post’s “Kony 2013: U.S. quietly […]