Reblog // Ugandan newspaper highlights Sunday Okello
The below article was recently published in the Ugandan newspaper, The Observer. As a former Invisible Children Legacy Scholarship Program beneficiary, Sunday Okello went from living in an internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp to heading to the United States to attend Franklin College in Indiana, where one international student each year is given a full-tuition scholarship. And you […]
On the job at IC Uganda // part 2
It’s Monday again! Time for another round of “why I love to go to work” with the Invisible Children Uganda staff. Lorna Peace has been working at IC Uganda since 2009. She said that her favorite day(s) are the ones when she gets to conduct career guidance at one of the Schools for Schools partner […]
You have less than 24 hours to ensure #zeroLRA
A week and a half ago we asked you to contact your members of Congress and encourage them to sign onto a letter aimed at President Obama and his administration, asking that they remain committed to ensuring a future with #zeroLRA. That’s zero men, women, and children abducted by Joseph Kony and forced to inflict […]
Samantha Power confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to United Nations
Yesterday the United States Senate confirmed Samantha Power as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations with strong bi-partisan support. Power wrote the book on ending genocide in the modern world (literally), and we’ve been fans for years. This spring, we got to sit down with her and discuss Fourth Estate Summit and international justice. We send […]
IC’s own DJ Fyler Tordham to play Fourth Estate Summit
For those of you have been to any IC dance party, you know it’s not complete until DJ Fyler Tordham takes the stage. To keep his DJ career alive, Fyler dabbles in Graphic Design as IC’s Lead Designer. You might know him from such things as: creating the KONY 2012 campaign OR making cameos in […]
Why I’m committed to #zeroLRA // Sean Poole
Invisible Children recently launched its newest advocacy campaign #zeroLRA, in which global citizens are encouraged to contact their leaders to commit to bringing Joseph Kony to justice and seeing an end to kidnapping, rape and murder by his rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA.) This is a crucial time to remind our officials of […]
Loosening Kony’s Grip: Effective Defection Strategies for Today’s LRA
Our partners at The Resolve LRA Crisis Initiative recently released a comprehensive report entitled “Loosening Kony’s Grip: Defection Strategies for Today’s LRA”. The report was written by Phil Lancaster, PhD and Ledio Cakaj and edited by Paul Ronan. As part of their research, they interviewed 22 former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) combatants and abductees. The […]
Betty Who to play 2013 Fourth Estate Summit
Our obsession with Betty Who started during a game that Jen from The Jane Doze and I play where we try to one-up each other with good music. The goal is to find something that the other person has never heard of but totally falls in love with. When Jen sent me “Somebody Loves You” […]
Schools for Schools: kicking off computer use
The Anaka computer lab was commissioned one year ago during a Schools for Schools trip to Uganda. Students from U.S. schools raised money for the refurbishment of a classroom at Anaka Secondary School to transform it into a computer lab with 30 workstations. Now that construction work is complete, Schools for Schools is focusing on […]
Why I think “liking” is helping
Every morning at 9:15 a reminder sounds on my phone: “Stop. Take 30 seconds. Why are you here?” By this time, I am caffeinated and rattling off 140 character bites to supporters and haters (motivators). I pause and think of the day ahead: tweets, comments, and Instagrams all purposely crafted to mobilize global citizens to bring […]