Blog Updates and inspiration

In three short weeks, the 2013 Fourth Estate Summit will be taking place. The Summit will also be playing host to the Common Good Exchange, a feature of over 50 organizations and brands. The Common Good Exchange will give participants of the Summit the opportunity to build connections with top organizations and brands at the […]

The Schools for Schools team recently handed over several finished buildings to the authorities at Awere Secondary School. During the Lord’s Resistance Army conflict, the school was displaced and by the time it was safe to return they had only an empty shell of a structure for classrooms. Everything else had been completely destroyed. Schools […]

I’ve always loved mysteries. I love the endless possibilities. I love being afforded the opportunity to get involved in the story and construct theories as complex or as simple as I choose. At times, mystery is more important than knowledge. J.J. Abrams, famous director and creator of LOST, delivers this compelling TedxTalk about his obsession […]

Music is a driving force in the work we do here at Invisible Children. It propels our social movement and serves as a universal language. The same is true for 16-year-old singer and songwriter Hayley Reardon. This Boston native is much like every 16-year-old. She’s an avid reader and coffee drinker. Oh, and she used songwriting to […]

Over the course of three days, 34 community leaders from northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and southeast Central African Republic (CAR) converged in Gulu town of northern Uganda to attend a cross-border community sensitization conference intended to familiarize the group with the origin of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and to draw strategies to […]

Let’s cut to the chase. Here is our newest mix of songs we urge everyone we know to listen to. They’re the ones soundtracking our work days gearing up for 2013 Fourth Estate Summit – that’s coming up soon, yeah? Launch all of our previous mixes on our Soundcloud [HERE]. Make it a priority to […]

Bear Mountain has been on our radar for a while now, and we were so excited when the opportunity came up to have them play at our office back in May. We were introduced to them by one of our dear friends and co-workers, Mercy, who is in the International Programs department here at Invisible […]

California singer/songwriter/great man Aaron Embry is the latest addition to our festival-ready lineup to perform at this summer’s 2013 Fourth Estate Summit. He will take a stage the same weekend as The Jane Doze, Noah Gundersen, Le Wrens, Ghost Beach, Carousel and In-Q. You might have seen him live performing with folk heavy-hitters Mumford & […]

By traveling down some scenic winding roads, past some roadside restaurants, and through small clearings of grouped huts, you will arrive at Irene’s new home – a 6-room building of bright red brick. She bought the land it’s built on with money she saved up as a seamstress at Mend, our social enterprise geared toward […]

The computer lab at Anaka Secondary School, constructed by Schools for Schools. Upperclassmen take lessons in information and computer technology to prepare for national exams.