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She drinks a glass of water. She fills a tub with clothes to scrub and rinses them out with water. She puts a pot of water on the stove to boil vegetables for dinner. Her six children tramp home covered in dust from school or playing with their friends, and she has set aside plastic […]

Rita Pierson is amazing. She comes from a family of educators and has been one herself for the past 40 years. This lady just gets it. Her energy is electrifying and her passion for teaching is evident. Her TedxTalk is oozing with hope for the future of education. In her talk, she discusses the importance of the […]

Warped Tour officially starts this Saturday, June 15. Tomorrow, Invisible Children Music is hitting the road to our first stop in Seattle, Washington. The beginning of the two-month tour, we’ll be traveling to 6 cities on the west coast before the festival takes on the rest of the country. Working alongside fellow roadie Stesha Durante, […]

Invisible Children doesn’t stop at documenting atrocities or activating youth or protecting civilians or rehabilitating post-conflict communities. We do it all. And we do it through a four-part model that focuses exclusively on the LRA conflict, addressing it in its entirety: immediate needs and long-term effects. One of the four parts of the comprehensive model is Recovery. […]

Seattle’s Le Wrens will be joining Ghost Beach, Noah Gundersen, and The Jane Doze as performers at this summer’s Fourth Estate Summit this August in Los Angeles. The band is a new outfit birthed out of the ever-impressive folk scene of Seattle. Lead vocalist Elizabeth Gundersen is serving up both lyrics and vocals beyond her […]

I make a lost of lists. Lists of books I want to read, places I want to visit, crazy things I want to do, and people I want to meet. Christopher Aiff (along with Macklemore, Oprah, and Robert Downey Jr.) is at the top of my “People I’d Love to Have A Conversation Over Coffee […]

Emma Williamson and Carolyn Oliver, through their dedication and conviction, are proving that well being on a global scale begins with the individual. Emma was inspired by our mission and wanted to get the word out. While still in high school, she got in touch with us to host a screening and our Roadies traveled […]

[Invisible Children Music: We firmly believe that music has a necessary role in giving social movements tremendous amounts of momentum. It is a universal language, and at Invisible Children, it’s important for us to be a part of that language.] WARPED TOUR IS COMING. It’s going to be a massive week for us in getting […]

Do you know Tony? If not, get ready. He was the subject of Brown is for Tony – one of our Bracelet Campaign films – and is in his second semester as an intern in our Art Department in San Diego. Tony recently sat down for an interview to fill me in on life since he met […]

At the Daniel Comboni Vocational School, students spend time both in the classroom and getting hands-on experience in their chosen field. Kenneth, a Legacy Scholarship Program student, is in his first year of the Motor Vehicle Training course. He and his fellow students are gathered around the open hood of a battered white vehicle, talking […]