Why we do what we do
Quick recap: Our current #zeroLRA campaign is raising money to fund programs that encourage kidnapped men, women, and children to escape Joseph Kony’s rebel army and return home. Every time someone safely surrenders, we celebrate. One such person is Opondo who escaped the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) after 15 years in captivity. So the staff in our […]
Welcome home, Opondo
When he was 10 years old, Opondo was abducted by Joseph Kony’s rebel army. After being held captive as a child soldier for 15 years, he finally escaped. He was rehabilitated and is now home with his family. CELEBRATE EVERYTHING. We are dismantling the Lord’s Resistance Army from within by encouraging soldiers like Opondo to […]
What our staff thinks is awesome
Our staff is awesome. By extension, what they think is awesome. Thus, we present to you: Youtube videos our staff thinks are awesome. Our CEO, Ben Keesey, mentioned in a staff meeting how much he liked this oldie but goodie. A classic video for a classy guy. Malorie, our Uganda Program Manager, may or may […]
C.J. Campbell receives the 2013 Action Award at the Fourth Estate Summit
Allow me introduce you to C.J. Campbell. A seemingly typical 26-year-old from Rockford, Illinois who enjoys such things as spoken word poetry, watching Fight Club, reading The Prophet, and eating falafels. But that is where any and all typical things end. Because extraordinary people just cannot be referred to as typical. Cerebral Palsy has confined […]
Reblog // Post Civil Conflict: Rebuilding Education in Northern Uganda
Invisible Children’s Teacher Exchange Program (TEX) was recently featured on GoAbroad.com. The below guest post was written by Catherine Hanna, the Program Facilitator of TEX, and discusses how TEX began as a professional development opportunity both for Ugandan and North American teachers, and is now helping to rebuild education in northern Uganda. Applications for the 2014 […]
Breaking down our four-part model: Recovery
Invisible Children doesn’t stop at documenting atrocities or activating youth or protecting civilians or rehabilitating post-conflict communities. We do it all. And we do it through a four-part model that focuses exclusively on the LRA conflict, addressing it in its entirety: immediate needs and long-term effects. One of the four parts of the comprehensive model is Recovery. […]
Kony’s Ivory: How Elephant Poaching in Congo Helps Support the LRA // IC Citizen
This week, Invisible Children, The Enough Project, and The Resolve LRA Crisis Initiative jointly released a new report highlighting evidence that the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been poaching elephants in the Democratic Republic of Congo, under Joseph Kony’s orders, and trafficking ivory as one means to sustain itself and resupply. The multimedia report, entitled Kony’s Ivory: How Elephant […]
Highlights from the UN Security Council’s six-month briefing on the LRA // IC Citizen
At its six-month briefing on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) last Wednesday, the UN Security Council emphasized that the LRA’s decades-long reign of terror can be stopped if the international community helps the African Union capture fugitive warlord Joseph Kony and his LRA soldiers. The press release, Council statement, and testimonies from Council members during […]
My interview with Samantha Power
There are some people that make me star-struck. But there are others, only a few on the planet, that make me universe-struck. Those are people who are bigger than fame, because they are living icons of something I hold important to my core. Samantha Power is one of those people. She has dedicated her life […]
Appreciating Chadwick
Not only do I have the fantastic job of being a staff writer at Invisible Children, but I also have the fantastic job of heading up the IC Appreciation Subcommittee (under the umbrella of the Fun Committee — we have committees for dayssss). My small committee chooses different employees and interns to appreciate at random. […]