Blog Updates and inspiration

Radios remain the only connection that many LRA combatants have to Uganda. Because of this Willy Charles Okello, ICU’s Radio Production and Liaison Officer, continues to work with communities on producing Come Home messages. The messages are shared through FM and shortwave radio stations that reach areas in DR Congo, CAR and South Sudan. The […]

Stress. We all have it, and we’re all trying to get rid of it. It gives us wrinkles, bad nail-biting habits, and premature death (or so the experts say). Well, psychologist Kelly McGonigal is here to give you a stress intervention (and no, she will not tell you to take deep breaths or do more […]

Phoenix, the band that won us over years ago with their hit single 1901 is back with a new album, Entertainment. The French foursome is currently on tour in the states promoting the album and are playing in New York this Wednesday, October 2nd. To honor IC supporters, Glassnote Records has generously given us tickets to […]

Head of Office Elijah Muchiri already had his computer hooked up to the projector before the start of a recent program managers’ meeting at ICU. His desktop background? A colorful map of the world depicting time zones, continents and, interestingly, recent natural disasters. The map updates itself as events occur throughout the world and, based on […]

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. Ojara Alex lost his 19-year-old son to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in 2001. Olum Thomas was at their farm on that fateful day. “My son was a calm, […]

On Thursday, September 26th, Invisible Children dropped 90,000 “come home” fliers over a region in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). With this flier drop we surpassed one million fliers designed, printed, and dropped since the program began. That’s one million opportunities for members of the LRA to escape, and it’s working. In 2012 alone, […]

I suppose it’s human nature to mold people into a preconceived category or stereotype. But sometimes, when you’re lucky, you meet someone who is too complex to fit any grouping at all. For me, that was true of  a 21-year-old Visual Communication Design major at Virginia Tech. Becca Grogan seems to be a jack of […]

Invisible Children was founded on the belief that there is equal and inherent value of every human life and there is a global responsibility to protect that life regardless of borders. As I listened to President Obama’s speech on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly, I could not help but feel that his vision […]

Ajok Betty, a seamstress at Mend, started her own side business doing tailoring and hair plaiting on the weekends at a local market in Gulu. Mend improves the quality of life for Ugandan mothers who were directly affected by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The women are empowered through psychosocial and financial trainings and […]

Meet Savannah. After growing up in Houston, graduating high school at 16, getting a degree in Psychology at 20, and getting married at 22, Savannah decided there was only more thing she needed to make her young and already-impressive life complete: an internship with Invisible Children. If you walk through the doors of our San […]