It’s World Refugee Day
Today a mother will leave the home where her child took his first steps. Today a son will run, not to score the winning goal, but to flee a nefarious force. Today a teenage girl will leave behind her closest friend. So, today, we pause for World Refugee Day. We remember the 38+ million refugees and internationally […]
It’s all in the delivery (pun intended)
Encouraging and facilitating the peaceful surrender of LRA combatants is one of the most effective ways to reduce threats to communities in central Africa and weaken the LRA’s ability to effectively operate. That is why defection fliers are an essential part of our Protection Programs. Invisible Children works with partner organizations and local leaders to send […]
Coming Home // life after the LRA
“I am happy to be back home and discover that the stories told to captives to discourage them from escaping were all lies.” Alex was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in 2002 when he was just eleven years old. “Life in the bush was unbearable,” he said. “I was forced to do unspeakable things […]
Jed’s five minute speech // 10,000 hours
We recently started a new tradition here at the office. At the beginning of our bi-weekly staff meetings, a member of our management team begins the gathering with a five-minute speech highlighting something they’ve learned or find interesting. Think of it as a mini-TED talk if you will. After exceptional speeches from CEO Ben Keesey, […]
Four questions with Sean Poole
This week we’re continuing our four-part model video series and premiering our Protection Programs. Accompanying that is our four question blog series which highlights a specific staffer who works on that specific program. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Sean Poole, Protection Program Extraordinaire. Sean is the Counter-LRA Programs Manager in our International Programs Department. He divides his time […]
Common Good Exchange // Human Rights Campaign
The newest addition to our Common Good Exchange at this August’s 2013 Fourth Estate Summit is one we’re all pretty excited about. Human Rights Campaign has been a favorite of ours for years now, and we couldn’t be happier about their rise to global recognition with their latest viral campaign. Human Rights Campaign (HRC) advocates […]
LRA Crisis Tracker Quarterly Security Brief
It’s been a quarter of a year since the last time an LRA security report was released. We know, time flies. Co-produced by The Resolve LRA Crisis Initiative and Invisible Children, the January – March 2013 Quarterly Security Brief analyzes patterns in LRA activity in the first three months of this year. The data is derived […]
Our friends just won an Emmy Award
Yes, you read that right. An actual Emmy. Meet Cameron Woodward (handsome fellow on the right) and Brandon Tauszik (handsome fellow on the left), two Invisible Children alumni, currently heading up video production company Sprinkle Lab. Like anyone else, we at Invisible Children love name-dropping and bragging about our friends, so we especially love it […]
TedxTalk Tuesdays // Dare to disagree
It’s happened yet again. I’ve watched a TedxTalk that has made the “Official List of Maryam’s Favorite TedxTalks Of All Time”… Margaret Heffernan, former CEO of five different businesses, delivers a talk called Dare to disagree. In it, she argues that good disagreement is essential to progress. She starts her talk by exploring the story […]
LRA suspected of recent killings in the Central African Republic
It has been confirmed that at least 16 people were killed in Central African Republic (CAR) last week. The unidentified assailants, suspected to be LRA, killed six civilians and abducted an additional 12. The civilians then killed four of the attackers in self-defense. The assailants went on to kill six more, decapitating the victims in a reprisal […]