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Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Ed Royce and Rep. Jim McGovern released a statement urging President Obama to remain focused on defeating Joseph Kony and the LRA. You can read an excerpt of the press release below:  Chairman Royce, Rep. McGovern Urge Obama to Focus on Defeating Kony, LRA 75 Members Join […]

Meet Carl Stevens – former Prom King, sports aficionado, twin and all around good guy. He’s the face of Invisible Children’s Livestream, and this weekend he’ll be hosting the live broadcast of the 2013 Fourth Estate Leadership Summit. He’ll be rubbing elbows with our special guests (hopefully not literally, but it’s Carl so you never know) […]

“The funny thing about me, I have 3 birthdays,” Fred offers the bait, eager to share his favorite story. Fred is in his final year of secondary school, and dreams of becoming a doctor. He’s also a skilled speaker, winning trophies for his school in debate for the past four years. The birthday dispute boils […]

Nearly two weeks ago, we asked you to reach out to your respective Members of Congress and encourage them to sign a letter that would be delivered to President Obama, encouraging him to remain committed to counter-LRA operations in east Africa. We asked and you responded. Over the last two weeks we witnessed 98 Members […]

Just when you start to comfort yourself by embracing your youth – “I’m only 23, I don’t need to have my life figured out yet” – clinical psychologist Meg Jay comes along with her TEDxTalk, “Why 30 is not the new 20”, and lights a massive fire under the derrières of all twenty-somethings. Contrary to […]

Invisible Children was built around the idea that a compelling story could change the world, so it only makes sense that members of our Invisible Children Uganda office (ICU) would want to share theirs. They recently released the first edition of a newsletter called “Invisible Voice”. The  bi-annual newsletter will be distributed to Invisible Children’s partners […]

The 2013 Fourth Estate Summit is drawing near and we are beyond excited for you guys to get to UCLA. We have gathered some of our favorite artists for the event, and we are especially pumped for you to see them. We know you may not know every artist performing, so we have put together […]

The below article was recently published in the Ugandan newspaper, The Observer. As a former Invisible Children Legacy Scholarship Program beneficiary, Sunday Okello went from living in an internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp to heading to the United States to attend Franklin College in Indiana, where one international student each year is given a full-tuition scholarship. And you […]

It’s Monday again! Time for another round of “why I love to go to work” with the Invisible Children Uganda staff. Lorna Peace has been working at IC Uganda since 2009. She said that her favorite day(s) are the ones when she gets to conduct career guidance at one of the Schools for Schools partner […]

A week and a half ago we asked you to contact your members of Congress and encourage them to sign onto a letter aimed at President Obama and his administration, asking that they remain committed to ensuring a future with #zeroLRA. That’s zero men, women, and children abducted by Joseph Kony and forced to inflict […]