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As we prepare to kick off the holiday season, #GivingTuesday is right around the corner. Millions will celebrate the global day of generosity on November 30, 2021, by donating to create a better future for our shared communities.  Give your #GivingTuesday Gift Today Join the movement by igniting hope for survivors of Lord’s Resistance Army […]

On February 4th, the ICC is scheduled to issue a verdict on former LRA commander, Domenic Ongwen. Meanwhile, the LRA continues to abduct children in central Africa.

After ten years in captivity and another stuck in limbo, Domenic was reunited with his family in January 2020.

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. – Lilla Watson 2018 was a year of monumental growth for Invisible Children. Thanks to new partnerships with the U.S. Agency for International Development […]

In the Central African Republic (CAR) Joseph Kony’s LRA is one among several armed groups. Many areas of CAR where the LRA is present are in the control of one central African armed group or another. Not only does this mean that central African communities face greater risk of violence, it also means that even […]

Gloria* spent most of her childhood in captivity. Early one morning in 2010, when she was seven years old, a group of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) fighters attacked Gloria’s community in eastern Central African Republic (CAR). She was at home with her older sister and a neighbor when the LRA abducted her. For eight long […]

This year, we have helped many former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) captives reunite with their families. One of those people is David, a seventeen-year-old boy from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2012, David was eleven years old, in his third year of primary school. One day, he went with his mother to collect water […]

For decades, Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has taken people from their families and forced them to become child soldiers, slaves, and laborers, and it continues today. This year alone, our Crisis Tracker has recorded 300 abductions by the LRA, including a number of children who are still missing. Thousands of people have come home over […]

Emmanuel* lives just outside the community of Dungu, in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These days, Dungu doesn’t experience much LRA violence but between 2008 and 2010, the LRA was pretty active there. According to our Crisis Tracker, the LRA killed at least 177 people and abducted 146 more during those three years alone. […]

This year for #GivingTuesday, we’re sharing the stories of people in central Africa who help their neighbors in times of need. Mama Courageous is one of those people. As part of a network of host homes, Mama Courageous opens her home to children in her community in need of a safe and loving home, including […]