Blog Updates and inspiration

This week, we are continuing to welcome Opondo home. Invisible Children was lucky enough to be at the World Vision rehabilitation center in Gulu when he recently reunited with his family for the first time in 15 years.

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 […]

“I am ready to pass the exam I will receive today,” Pyerina Okot confidently stated. Her classmates were gathered nearby, pens in hand, anxiously awaiting the papers that their facilitator was preparing to hand out. Pyerina is a member of one of Invisible Children’s Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA). She is taking part in […]

In 2011, we started The Musician Coalition with the idea of bringing together artists we love in an effort to raise money for our programs in central Africa. The coalition brought together over 40 musicians fundraising to build a life-changing radio tower in the conflict region. Over the course of that campaign, they collectively raised […]

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 […]

At the start of the week, we asked our supporters to enter a Stand for Nothing contest. The phrase has become a bit of a mantra around our office during our current fundraising campaign for #zeroLRA. Nothing is zero, so we’re standing for it – no child soldiers, no killing, and no war. We tasked […]

Greetings from our office in Gulu, Uganda. It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood indeed.

This morning, staff member Carl Stevens met up with our International Programs Director, Adam Finck, to discuss the recent attacks by Joseph Kony’s LRA in South Sudan and what Invisible Children is doing to respond to this situation. As one of the leading experts in the LRA conflict, Adam was able to share some of the […]

Conversations around the LRA conflict are often focused on atrocity, abduction, combat, and defection; but there is a critical yet relatively sidelined issue that has been the backbone of all efforts towards sustainable peace in central Africa and reconciliation in Uganda: Amnesty. Uganda’s amnesty policy is what guarantees that when Ugandan LRA surrender, they can […]

The following information was obtained through Invisible Children and on-the-ground partners. We are working to gather more information on these events and are sending members of our team to get the full story: + November 11th at Duru, DRC: A 15-year-old boy, who was abducted by the LRA five months ago from Aba, DRC, escaped. He […]