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Interesting infographic via Upworthy:

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Happy Monday from IC Uganda! Here are two more stories from our staff on the ground in Gulu. Geoffrey Paul Makameri is the IT Officer for Invisible Children Uganda, and has been working at ICU three years. He’s a busy man: when he’s not traveling to the regional offices to set up internet, helping staff […]

On the way south from their home in Seattle, the Kris Orlowski and his band was kind enough to stop by Invisible Children’s Headquarters before their show with Gregory Alan Isakov.  As a continuation of our ‘Almost Live’ Series, we were able to capture their intimate acoustic cover of the iconic Cyndi Lauper tune called “Time After […]

PREFACE: The following occurred on the final night of the 2013 Fourth Estate Summit. And yes, it’s a true story. I was assigned to the actor/activist/speaker Don Cheadle. By “assigned” I mean I was put in charge of keeping him in my line of sight at all times to ensure he got onstage at the […]