Blog Updates and inspiration

It feels like it’s been months, but just three weeks ago I was working as an intern in IC’s Comm Dept, throwing out ideas and strategizing for whatever grand idea they had up their sleeve. For the past 10 months or so, I worked as the social media intern and immersed myself in communication strategy and […]

On the dashboard of an Invisible Children Uganda vehicle.

After this summer’s Fourth Estate Leadership Summit, our Director of Idea Development is taking some time off to pursue a dream he’s had for years. In a recent contribution to GOOD, Jedidiah Jenkins explains his dream and his vision for pursuing it. Needless to say, we’re all a bit envious of his forthcoming  journey and expect timely and inspiring updates, […]

Based on a 2012 survey, more than half of the seamstresses in our Gulu-based social enterprise were operating Income Generating Activities (IGAs)–and 81.8% expressed interest in starting their own. To learn more about how, the ladies stepped away from their sewing machines last week for a field trip. Local facilitators with business skills training experience […]

Today, President Obama made two major announcements about changes (or proposed changes) to his administration. First, he announced that he has appointed Susan Rice, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as his new national security advisor.  The media has been buzzing with commentary about this decision and what it will mean for the Obama Administration’s foreign […]

Here’s a little something warm and fuzzy for your Wednesday. And, no, it’s not a photo series of small animals (but feel free to send those our way). Joe’s Place, a youth center in Moose Jaw, Canada, landed on our radar when they previously raised $42,000 over two years for Invisible Children. Their creative efforts […]

When visiting Sacred Heart School, one of the first things to catch your eye as you walk past the administrative offices is the 3-story classroom block in the center of campus. It is painted a cheerful yellow, and if you come during classes it is alive with students filling each classroom with laughter and chatter […]

Invisible Children doesn’t stop at documenting atrocities or activating youth or protecting civilians or rehabilitating post-conflict communities. We do it all. Through an integrated four-part model, we address the LRA conflict in its entirety: immediate needs and long-term effects. After Jason Russell, Laren Poole, and Bobby Bailey encountered the atrocities of Joseph Kony and the […]

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 […]

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 […]