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After practicing our Oprah yell, we had the honor and privilege of announcing the winner of our two-week Uganda trip giveaway today to Carlie Frye. Carlie is the third winner, leaving four all-expenses-paid trips to Uganda still up for grabs. This win has been a long time coming for Carlie who has supported Invisible Children since […]

Click to help fund the safe escape and rehabilitation of abducted child soldiers For the past 27 years, Joseph Kony has kidnapped children from their homes and forced them to fight in his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). But in an army comprised mostly of soldiers who did not voluntarily choose to fight, how do Kony […]

Abductions by Joseph Kony’s rebel army have contributed to thousands of missing children throughout East and central Africa. This is a story of one still missing. It was on the 10th of October, 1999, that Okidi Charles had dinner with his son Opii Christopher for the last time. At the age of 14, Christopher was […]

The tally of those who have lost a family member, been displaced, or been abducted as a result of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) continues to grow decades after the conflict began. In northern Uganda, seven years after the LRA moved into central Africa and South Sudan, it’s difficult to find anyone who has not been affected by […]

Sign up to fundraise for programs that dismantle Joseph Kony’s army from within Over the past two weeks, two high-profile articles have come out revolving around counter-LRA operations in central and East Africa. The New Yorker’s “How a Texas Philanthropist Helped Fund the Hunt for Joseph Kony” and The Washington Post’s “Kony 2013: U.S. quietly […]

Abductions by Joseph Kony’s rebel army have contributed to thousands of missing children throughout East and central Africa. This is a story of one still missing. It was almost eight years ago when Hellen Lalam last saw her daughter, Dorine Ajok. The family was living in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, and Dorine had […]

For the past 27 years, rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have been killing, mutilating, raping, and displacing innocent civilians in central and East Africa. Kony abducts men and young boys and brainwashes them into fighting in his army and abducts women and young girls to be used as sex slaves. Here are […]

Today we celebrate the grand opening of Banda FM – the first and only independent radio station in the Bas Uele district of Democratic Republic of Congo. The radio tower transmits signals over 100km and is an impressive 300 feet tall. It provides a critical means of communication from the community to members of the […]

Sometimes (read: most times) the second try is better than the first. Trust me, I’m the second born in my family. #kidding. This is especially true in the tech world – problems are fixed, new features are added. It’s a win-win. Two great examples: the iPad 2 and the recently revamped Myspace. Yeah Myspace. Trust me. Taking […]

Lili Cairl’s favorite quote is: “Be more concerned with what you can do for others instead of what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results.” – John Wooden Today, we are thrilled to surprise Lili (age 17) with a much-deserved all-expenses-paid trip to Uganda as the winner of our two week […]