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Active 2012-Present Program remains active under the ownership of our partners at Invisible Children Uganda. Although the Lord’s Resistance Army left Uganda in 2006, the LRA continues to abduct children, forcing the girls to become wives to army commanders and the boys to become soldiers. They are forced to witness and perpetrate terrible war crimes. […]

Active 2009-2014 WASH provides rural communities in northern Uganda with access to safe drinking water and improves the sanitation and hygiene of community members. This initiative included drilling safe water points, appointing a water user committee (WUC) to maintain the water point, and training members on basic health practices that still impact communities today. Access […]

Active 2005-2014 Some of the greatest needs and development gaps in northern Uganda can be attributed to the region’s limited access to education. Beginning in 2005, Invisible Children worked to address these key gaps through The Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP), which provides merit-based scholarships to motivated and talented secondary and university students who have been […]

Active 2006-2014 During the two decades of war that torn apart northern Uganda, schools were occupied, damaged and displaced. Consequently, many lacked basic necessities such as permanent classrooms and sanitation systems. The damage of the conflict was not limited to infrastructure, as teaching and learning had not been allowed to flourish within the region. The […]

Active 2007- 2014 Mend dramatically improved the quality of life for women in Gulu, Uganda, who had been directly affected by the LRA conflict. This social enterprise produced stylish, high-quality bags while providing advanced training in tailoring, finance, and personal development to the women it supported. Our Mend seamstresses are now not only economically stable, […]

Active 2008-Present Program remains active under the ownership of our partners at Invisible Children Uganda. The Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) program empowers rural communities in northern Uganda to take control of their personal finances for the first time. Each member of the group saves, takes out loans, repays loans with interest, and invests. […]

Active 2007-2013 The Teacher Exchange (TEX) program fostered significant teaching partnerships by enabling international educators to team-teach in northern Uganda and North America. North American teachers would visit Uganda for six weeks over the summer each year. In a reciprocal exchange, Ugandan educators visited schools in North America the following winter. In addition to facilitating […]

Active 2009-Present Program remains active under the ownership of our partners at Invisible Children Uganda. Because of forced relocation in 1996 and a lack of access to education due to the LRA conflict, many young adults in northern Uganda had no opportunity to complete, or even begin, their education. Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) provides training […]

We always planned for our events to “bring it all together”. They simultaneously educated our supporters, while engaging political and cultural leaders — ultimately uniting people around the shared goal of permanently ending the LRA crisis . Through strength in numbers and power in creative action, we galvanized unprecedented attention to the LRA conflict and […]

We believe in the equal and inherent value of all human life. We believe that a worldview bound by borders is outdated and that stopping injustice anywhere is the responsibility of humanity everywhere. We call this ethos the Fourth Estate. The Conference Our Fourth Estate Summits ranged from small, intimate retreats to spectacular large-scale events. […]