Blog Updates and inspiration

Thanks to Invisible Children training, the community of Zemio, CAR was prepared to help a surge of LRA escapees.

Even after graduating over 2,000 members from the Functional Adult Literacy course last month, Invisible Children Uganda’s livelihoods team has not taken much time to rest. Change is in the works as the team recently kicked off planning for the future of our Livelihoods programming and support Lord’s Resistance Army escapees. We believe that the […]

Much of Invisible Children’s work throughout east and central Africa focuses on the safe return home of those held captive by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). But before escapees are transferred to rehabilitation centers and begin reintegration back into their communities, they participate in a series of interviews with members of the military. Three […]

Why do we keep talking about “Come Home” messaging? Because it has proven to be the most successful tool in fostering defections from the Lord’s Resistance Army. 89% of recent LRA escapees have said that Come Home programs played a role in their peaceful surrender. Recently, some of the seamstresses at Mend mentioned the desire […]