Blog Updates and inspiration

What was your biggest concern when you were 12 years old? Was it making sure you left class early enough to grab a seat by your best friends in your middle school’s lunch room? Or preparing for your impending marriage to a man twice your age? According to the Council on Foreign Relations, for millions of girls across all […]

Odongo Innocent stopped by the Invisible Children Uganda (ICU) office the other day with a note of thanks. “You really helped me. In my life, I would not have made it,” he said, expressing his appreciation for the Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP). Since joining the Legacy Scholarship Program in 2010 and later graduating from Awere […]

Many young people around northern Uganda are completing their academic programs and celebrating the end of the school term, but our celebration this week were all about a different group of learners. 993 members of Invisible Children’s Functional Adult Literacy Program were joined by their families and community leaders during two ceremonies held on Friday […]

Maybe it’s because I’m a recent college grad whose peer group seems to talk about nothing but the job hunt. Maybe it’s because I intern at an organization where everyone seems to miraculously love their job. Whatever the reason, this TED Talk about work life captured my attention and I thought it was worth sharing. […]

“I am ready to pass the exam I will receive today,” Pyerina Okot confidently stated. Her classmates were gathered nearby, pens in hand, anxiously awaiting the papers that their facilitator was preparing to hand out. Pyerina is a member of one of Invisible Children’s Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA). She is taking part in […]

University students from the Legacy Scholarship Program recently came together for a day-long workshop day in Gulu. The workshop’s theme was “Education, a tool for personal and societal transformation.” The students spent the day hearing from ICU staff and inspirational speakers, discussing their experience at LSP scholars and learning about updates to the program. “I think it’s […]

ICU’s Livelihoods team has been visiting Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) groups in northern Uganda this week to deliver educational materials for our Adult Literacy program. The supplies support the programs’ mission of providing literacy, numeracy and writing training for members of VSLA groups. The materials include large pads of paper, chalk, tape and a chalkboard eraser. Each group […]

As a mentor in ICU’s Pader office, Joy Oyado meets regularly with LSP students and their families to discuss the student’s academic performance, health, social life and any issues related to what she calls the “proper nurturing and development of a given child.” She recognizes the importance of building relationships between mentors, students and their […]

Since 2006, the Schools for Schools (S4S) program of Invisible Children Uganda has constructed or refurbished 236 buildings at 11 partner schools in northern Uganda. These projects were funded by the creative and tireless fund raising of students at hundreds of international schools. Today, we take a look at what those efforts meant to Anaka […]

As a fresh new member of the Invisible Children Uganda team, I have spent much of the last two weeks learning the ins and outs of our Recovery programs. Among this torrent of information, the “why” – the reason we do the work we do – is always the most apparent. It has become increasingly vivid […]