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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. Anek Judita had suffered a stroke and her words were slow and halted as she recounted the story of her daughter’s abduction. Akello Acii was only 12 years old […]

This week, Congress agreed on a budget deal that would end the government shutdown and avert a national default. The legislation, which was approved at nearly the eleventh hour and subsequently signed into law by President Obama, includes a handful of funding measures that, according to Reuters, “would otherwise be handled in normal spending bills.” One of […]

Dear global supporters, One of our fellow interns from this past summer has a tattoo of the world on her back. It has no countries, no borders. Only the edges of continents shaped by the oceans around them. When asked why the tattoo has no borders, she smiles and says, “Because we don’t belong to […]

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. Ocora Geoffrey was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in June of 1993. He was 15 years old, studying at a secondary school in Atanga. His older brother, Ocaya […]

If a LRA member is able to escape their group, communities in the conflict affected regions of Central African Republic (CAR) , Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and South Sudan are often first point of contact during a LRA member’s defection processes. Therefore, currently underway at Invisible Children’s regional office in Kampala, is a four […]

The following  was written by Chris Szabo, a Roadie on the Heartland Team. I’m here touring the U.S. Heartland region this fall as a Roadie on a crazy adventure to end a 27-year-long war in East and central Africa led by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. Millions have worked to end this conflict, and just […]

We are proud to announce that the winner of our first Uganda trip giveaway is the one and only Meredith Hoffman. As the president of Ursuline Academy’s Invisible Children club, Meredith absolutely blew it out of the water by raising $7,276 in the past two weeks for our #zeroLRA campaign. Not only is Meredith a […]

Abductions by Joseph Kony’s rebel army contribute to hundreds of missing children in central Africa each year. This is a story of one still missing. Akello Rosemary’s first born was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in September of 2002. He was only 12 years old and studying at Layibi Central. Rosemary was living with […]

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. Ojara Alex lost his 19-year-old son to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in 2001. Olum Thomas was at their farm on that fateful day. “My son was a calm, […]

There have been numerous articles reporting a mass defection from within Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, and rumors are swirling. Here is what we do know. A small group of potential defectors from an unidentified armed force reportedly made contact with Central African officials in Haute-Kotto, CAR, and indicated that they were a part of a […]