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The fifth Invisible Children film, Sunday: the story of the displaced, was released in 2007. Okello Sunday was a 15-year-old orphan living in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in northern Uganda when he met an Invisible Children team doing research for the Displace Me event. Sunday stood out to them as an exceptionally bright […]

It’s Monday morning. It’s time to go to work. Again. But instead of letting the days blur together, what if you were to pick out the highlights, the days that remind you why you always show up? Remembering you are part of something bigger might give you the energy you need to seize the day. […]

Over the course of three days, 34 community leaders from northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and southeast Central African Republic (CAR) converged in Gulu town of northern Uganda to attend a cross-border community sensitization conference intended to familiarize the group with the origin of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and to draw strategies to […]

Last week Invisible Children received an open letter from one of our supporters via Twitter. We were so inspired by the letter–especially the question it raised–that we passed it around the office. Ben Keesey, Invisible Children’s CEO, read it and wanted to respond personally. And he’s not the only one. A lot of us here […]

Cheerful paintings on a wall at the World Vision Children of War Center in Gulu – an organization Invisible Children Uganda collaborates with to reintegrate former LRA combatants into their home communities.

“I am happy to be back home and discover that the stories told to captives to discourage them from escaping were all lies.” Alex was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in 2002 when he was just eleven years old. “Life in the bush was unbearable,” he said. “I was forced to do unspeakable things […]

Predominantly made up of women whose lips were cut by the Lord’s Resistance Army during the war in northern Uganda, group Rubanga Tek (God is strong) is a Village Saving and Loan Associations group in Lamwo District. The group was initiated last year with support from Invisible Children Uganda’s regional office, and so far has […]

In 2000 Uganda’s government passed the Amnesty Act which legislated that LRA members who surrender to the UPDF and return to Uganda will not be prosecuted (with the exception of Kony and his top ICC-indicted commanders). For the rank and file LRA fighter, the promise of amnesty is one of the greatest incentives to try […]

It was not a typical afternoon at Mend. Out in the yard, the women were somersaulting and dancing around on colorful mats, full of nervous energy. It was their very first yoga lesson. Lolly Berger, of Pachamama’s Daughters Yoga, led them through the poses while Lapat Evelyn, the Mend social worker, translated her directions into […]

A group of traditional dancers perform at the KONY 2012: Peace Here, Peace Everywhere event in Gulu, Uganda one year ago. The event brought together the local government, religious leaders and the wider community to share their hopes for peace in the region. Guests from Democratic Republic of Congo also attended, to talk about current […]