One million opportunities to escape the Lord’s Resistance Army
On Thursday, September 26th, Invisible Children dropped 90,000 “come home” fliers over a region in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). With this flier drop we surpassed one million fliers designed, printed, and dropped since the program began. That’s one million opportunities for members of the LRA to escape, and it’s working. In 2012 alone, […]
Supporter Spotlight // Becca Grogan
I suppose it’s human nature to mold people into a preconceived category or stereotype. But sometimes, when you’re lucky, you meet someone who is too complex to fit any grouping at all. For me, that was true of a 21-year-old Visual Communication Design major at Virginia Tech. Becca Grogan seems to be a jack of […]
Obama discusses human rights and LRA in U.N. speech
Invisible Children was founded on the belief that there is equal and inherent value of every human life and there is a global responsibility to protect that life regardless of borders. As I listened to President Obama’s speech on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly, I could not help but feel that his vision […]
Celebrate every escape // the Mboki Five
Celebrate everything. Every escape. Every name. Every life. Last November, five people successfully escaped from the Lord’s Resistance Army. Two were young men from Uganda who had likely been just children when first abducted. The other three were girls who had been abducted about three years ago. Two girls were kidnapped in Central African Republic, […]
Stories of the missing // Ocitti Geoffrey #zeroLRA
Abductions by Joseph Kony’s rebel army have contributed to thousands of missing children throughout East and central Africa. This is a story of one still missing. Okera Richard’s older brother, Ocitti Geoffrey, was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in 1991. Geoffrey was 17 years old then. “He had left home with one of our […]
Is this still a thing?
Behind Invisible Children’s official Facebook page are real people, and I am one of them. And as I sift through the comments on our timeline, this is what I see the most: “Is this still a thing?” The KONY 2012 campaign began and ended in 2012. But Invisible Children has been a company since 2004, and will continue […]
Blindfold Magazine features former child solider turned rapper
Blindfold Magazine recently published an article featuring Emmanuel Jal, an internationally known rapper who is a former Sudanese child soldier. Jal’s dark and intangibly painful past gives him every excuse to be filled with a need for hateful revenge, but instead he says, “Now I’m fighting a different war: education and peace, coexistence, equality. There’s […]
Meet (some of) our Roadies
This September we are launching our 16th tour (#zeroLRA) and it’s the most exciting tour we’ve done so far. We know we say that every time, but this time we mean it. Because this time, instead of just getting you psyched about how great things could be, our Roadies will be showing you real results of how […]
Supporter Spotlight // An office dog’s perspective
An entry from Mick, the office dog: My day begins the same. My master and I jump out of a wheeled machine, the same kind I so frequently enjoy chasing. I dash up some steps to an office where I hear noises echo through the maze of desks and chairs. Alas, another Friday with the […]
UPDATE // 96 Members of Congress commit to #zeroLRA
When we launched our latest advocacy campaign a few weeks ago, we had an ambitious goal of getting our representatives in Washington, DC to pay attention and recommit to ending the atrocities of Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). We asked them to do this by signing a letter that would be delivered […]