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What our staff thinks is awesome
Our staff is awesome. By extension, what they think is awesome. Thus, we present to you: Youtube videos our staff thinks are awesome. Our CEO, Ben Keesey, mentioned in a staff meeting how much he liked this oldie but goodie. A classic video for a classy guy. Malorie, our Uganda Program Manager, may or may […]
Obal Denis’s faceless portraits of northern Uganda
We recently came across a collection of photographs, discovered in Gulu, Uganda, by Italian photographer Martina Bacigalupo. New York Times columnist Maya Lau, describes the discovery: Visiting the town of Gulu in northern Uganda, the Italian photographer Martina Bacigalupo happened upon discarded portraits with the subjects’ faces removed. They led her to the Gulu Real […]
Reblog // The unfinished business of the 1963 march on Washington
Interesting infographic via Upworthy:
Legacy Scholarship: getting parents involved
Mentoring is a vital aspect of our Legacy Scholarship Program. Mentors are a great link between a student, their parents, the school and Invisible Children Uganda. How do mentors do this? They conduct home and school visits to assess the progress of the student both in their academic and social lives. School visits are done when […]
ICCAR: full throttle
The following was written by Sébastien Porter, a Project Officer at Invisible Children Central African Republic. The Invisible Children office in Central African Republic, or ICCAR, is back in business. With a transitional CAR government in place, the southeast of the country is much more stable than it was a few months ago, giving our […]
Redeem the dream // The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington
“I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.” These words were spoken exactly 50 years ago today by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the legendary March on Washington – a demonstration that remains in American history […]
TedxTalk Tuesdays / / The art of asking
We ask a lot of our supporters. In 2012, we asked you to make Joseph Kony famous, and you made him viral. At the 2013 Fourth Estate Summit, we asked you to pledge to fundraise for #zeroLRA – and not only did you promise to raise $2.4 million over the coming months, but you raised […]
Reblog // Jay Naidoo on the vision of the Invisible Children
Jay Naidoo spoke at our Fourth Estate Leadership Summit on August 9th. He is the founding General Secretary of Cosatu, former Minister in Mandela Government, and Chair of a GAIN a Global Foundation Fighting malnutrition in the World. Below is an article he wrote for the Daily Maverick highlighting fellow Summit speaker Collines Angwech, as well […]
What we’re reading / / a chat with Bob Goff, author of “Love Does”
Last Thursday, I was invited with a group of Invisible Children interns and Roadies to meet a local author for donuts. I had not heard of the author, but I knew exactly how I felt about donuts so I said yes (a thousand times yes). We showed up at a nondescript office building in San […]