Blog Updates and inspiration

Students from an Invisible Children Uganda partner school, Gulu High, play traditional instruments. These students are part of a unique program at the school designed for the visually impaired.

I’ll admit it. I’ve never really been a big fan of the concept of Google Glass – the futuristic goggles that act as a smartphone for your face. The idea feels uncomfortably dystopian; something that belongs in a sci-fi movie. In fact, I’m still completely against the idea of eBooks. I want to feel the words and pages of […]

It is in the moments of decision that your fate is determined. It’s undeniable that the slightest encounters of the universe have the possibility of changing your life. This is called fate, which we embrace wholeheartedly at Invisible Children. Filling out the wrong online form, opening your home to a stranger, and stumbling upon a […]

Los Angeles band White Arrows absolutely decimated the stage at our 2012 Holiday Benefit Show back in December. Before they blew our minds, the five-part group took to the VIP lounge of The Troubadour to do a special take on a song off their record Dry Land is Not a Myth. Check their performance for […]

By 2050 the United Nations expects that not only will the world population increase to 9.1 billion people, but that 70% of us will live in urban areas. To put things in perspective: 50 years ago the earth held 3.2 billion people. Urban sprawl – the expansion of urban developments on undeveloped land near a city, is […]

Here we have the next video taken from our December 15th sessions with the artists who played our Holiday Benefit Show in Los Angeles. It’s an acoustic take from Whispertown – a project featuring Morgan Nagler and Jake Bellows. The duo opened our show with their interesting take on folk/pop, and Morgan offered up our […]

“We don’t want [the U.S.] to bring us aid. We want to produce, and they buy,” the Senior Presidential Advisor on AGOA and Trade Susan K. Muhwezi said during a visit to Invisible Children’s social enterprise – Mend – in Gulu last week. Emphasizing the value of trade over aid in developing countries, Muhwezi encouraged […]

It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But sometimes it’s worth far more. Photography gives insight into the lives and surroundings of a subject at hand, but given particular circumstances, those insights can become a force behind social change. To gain a firsthand perspective on the complexities of the region, photojournalist Sarah Fretwell traveled to the Democratic Republic of […]

On December 15 at our fourth annual Holiday Benefit Show in Los Angeles at The Troubadour, five bands used their voices (literally and metaphorically) to help raise funds for our FM Radio program. Before the evening kicked off (which you can read a recap of [HERE]), we partnered with Texas-based audio/video wizards SerialBox Presents to […]

Photojournalist Dan Eldon spent the last months of his life in Somalia, photographing the war-torn country with a gentle touch and a powerful perspective. In 1993, as Eldon and several of his colleagues were covering a botched military raid in Mogadishu that left 74 civilians dead and 100 more injured, he and two others were stoned to death […]