Photo Friday // Gulu High School’s Ojok Jennifer
Meet Ojok Jennifer. Jennifer is a student at Gulu High School and a member of the Legacy Scholarship Program. She has hopes to be a doctor one day, empowered to pursue her dreams through the support of her teachers at GHS and her mentor from Invisible Children. We caught up with her to ask about the […]
Schools for Schools // Built with purpose
We are all about impact at Invisible Children. We began by producing media that matters and learned quickly that our advocacy efforts could do so much more for the people of northern Uganda beyond just sharing their stories. We started asking students throughout the world to offer their support for the region’s students. You answered our call […]
Throwback Thursday // Snapshots from Schools for Schools
Schools for Schools began in 2006 as a response to the poor condition of many schools following the Lord’s Resistance Army conflict. Invisible Children linked schools around the world together with our 11 partner schools in northern Uganda. Rather than thinking of the conflict as something that was too far away or difficult to understand, […]
ON LOCATION // The ultimate field trip
I recently had the amazing opportunity to travel to Gulu, Uganda with my work wife/partner in crime/cohort/other staff writer, Azy. For 10 days we toured Invisible Children’s Recovery programs, met with our communications team at our IC Uganda office, and loved it all despite hazardous roads and mosquitoes being obsessed with us (we think it’s because […]
First rehabilitation center in DR Congo for LRA-affected youth officially opens
Seeing firsthand the limited rehabilitation services available to children who have experienced extreme trauma as a result of LRA violence and abduction, Invisible Children and our partners from the Commision Diocesaine Justice et Paix (CDJP) and Sponsoring Children Uganda have opened the very first rehabilitation center in DR Congo focused on LRA-affected youth. We’ve been working diligently since January of 2011 on its […]
Centre Elikya in final phase of construction
Invisible Children has partnered with local leaders and international rehabilitation experts in northeastern DR Congo to develop the region’s first rehabilitation center for children affected by the LRA. Centre Elikya provides holistic care for children who have been abducted by the LRA and have suffered high-levels of trauma. Children receive psychosocial support as they return […]
Centre Elikya: photo update
Since January of 2011, Invisible Children has been working diligently with its partners to establish the very first rehabilitation center in DR Congo focused on LRA-affected youth. Even during construction, the Centre (appropriately named Centre Elikya, meaning “hope” in Lingala), has been counseling traumatized children from the local Dungu area since October 2011. An exciting […]