Blog Updates and inspiration

Teachers from Invisible Children Uganda partner schools were given an opportunity to acquire new computer knowledge, skills and working methods through a one week computer training at Sacred Heart School. The training, conducted this week by Schools for Schools (S4S), is designed to support teachers and build their capacity to help students. Computer applications like […]

Just this morning, we welcomed a group of students and staff from Franklin College in Indiana who were traveling through Uganda and decided to swing by the Invisible Children Uganda (ICU) office while in Gulu. Obviously everyone can’t just hop on a plane to Uganda, but we thought you might like a peek inside the […]

In Nwoya district in northern Uganda, the Invisible Children Uganda team is working with TechnoServe to drill 8 new boreholes. In Gulu district they are drilling 4 new boreholes. That’s 12 clean water sources that will make communities healthier and safer.

The year 2013 is just getting started, but it’s shaping up to be a big year for the staff of Invisible Children Uganda (ICU). Whether planning to buy land or become the next Olympic champion, the staff will be busy making this year an exciting one. Here are the expectations of a handful of the […]

Coming this Christmas: The Teacher Reciprocal Exchange! Six teachers from northern Uganda will be coming to teach in classrooms across the U.S. this December and January. They are assigned a partner teacher and will be able to learn new skills and techniques in the classroom as well as share their own teaching styles and culture […]

Invisible Children Uganda’s (ICU) Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) provide community members with an opportunity to save money, earn interest, and take out loans to start up their own businesses. The 95 savings groups meet once a week, and those meetings are overseen by a community facilitator. Facilitators are also trained in teaching Functional […]

Collines, a university student in the Legacy Scholarship Program and the Director of Operations for Hope for Humans in Uganda is well aware of the power that advocacy has to change hearts and expand minds. She was an Invisible Children Roadie for the Frontline and Congo tours in 2011, and while she inspired many with […]

Mentors for Invisible Children Uganda’s (ICU) Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) work full time following up with students and helping them to navigate the challenges they face as they pursue secondary and university education. Last week the ICU Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team sat down with mentors to train them on how to record quantitative and […]

Making a plan is one thing, following it is another. How to create a personal timetable and stick to it was the topic of discussion during an interactive group mentoring session for Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP)  students at Gulu High School last week. The purpose of the gathering was to share ideas on how the […]

  “It’s great to see students who start with lots of problems improving,” Drago Patrick, a mathematics and geography teacher at Gulu High School, says. By partner teaching with Teacher Exchange educators who have come to Uganda in the past, Patrick says that he has learned to be more patient with his students. “It has […]