Blog Updates and inspiration

It’s almost one of our favorite days of the year — #GivingTuesday, a global day for giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration. Every year, on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, communities and organizations from all over the world come together for one common purpose: to celebrate and encourage giving. It’s a day that […]

Samantha Power is a boss. Not only is she an Invisible Children supporter and human rights activist, but she’s also the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (no big deal). Last week, Ambassador Power spoke to the graduates of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in Boston, MA. That was a mouth […]

Is peace possible? Here at Invisible Children, we answer that question with a resounding “yes.” We’re investing in the best strategies to end Africa’s longest-running conflict, and we dream of a world where violence isn’t the only solution. This article by Karin Zeitvogel from  Voice of America caught our attention, because it promotes female leadership […]

In the spring of 1989, I was still a few months off being born. Despite this, I recognize the iconic image above: one man putting himself in harm’s way in order to stand in the path of weapons of oppression. This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. For seven weeks, democracy […]

A view from above of one of the streets in Gulu, a small town in northern Uganda where Invisible Children Uganda is based. During the height of the LRA conflict, over 50,000 children commuted each night to town centers like Gulu’s due to the threat of abduction by Joseph Kony and his rebel army.

There is a restaurant in Kampala, the capital of Uganda and home to Invisible Children’s regional office, with a chalkboard drawing that reminds us that peace is a global concept.

Kunangbangate Belaha (Kun) traveled from his community in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the U.S. for the first time to attend the 2013 Fourth Estate Summit. While at the Summit, Kun was awarded the 2013 Peace Award for his unwavering efforts to protect his village from LRA violence. On his last morning in […]

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 […]