Blog Updates and inspiration

When you’re a well-known writer, publishing critical articles about a brutal regime that runs your county is dangerous. For Syrian writer and journalist Samar Yazbeck, denying her own safety was the only thing she felt she could do. When things got bad in Syria, Samar started to interview rebels and innocents caught in Bashar al-Assad regime’s atrocities. She wrote about […]

As our Middle America Roadie team makes their way across North America to screen MOVE, they made a stop in Marion, Iowa at Excelsior Middle School. The Latin meaning of Excelsior is “ever upward” and it couldn’t apply more to the outlook of the amazing students there. After initially seeing KONY 2012 back in March, […]

As one of Invisible Children’s Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) students in secondary school, Mercy Aloyo is appreciative of the supporters of IC for being able to finish her education. She did so well, that she has now been awarded a university scholarship through LSP for development studies at Gulu University. “On joining the university I […]

International Justice Mission (IJM) is a non-profit human rights organization that brings rescue to victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. They seek to make public justice systems work for victims of abuse and oppression who urgently need the protection of the law. With already 15 field offices operating in countries […]

Learning to ride a bike is a classic experience of childhood. Wobbling down the sidewalk without training wheels, learning to balance. Finally, you are allowed to ride your bike to a friend’s house, or up to the gas station to buy candy and you fly along the street, the wind in your hair, unstoppable. It’s […]

Ayella Florence Oroma is the kind of teacher students remember their entire lives. Teaching for over 20 years, she is seeing a shift in teaching from being teacher-focused to being student-focused. As an English and literature teacher, she prefers to make her classes as interactive as possible, helping students learn how to express themselves better. […]

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that it will begin buying food grown by small-scale farmers in Acholi, a region where as recently as two years ago many people relied on WFP food assistance. The food agency will buy 154 metric tons of maize from grain traders in Gulu District. This marks […]

When I think of a hero, I tend to think of someone who can fly or someone who owns a batmobile. But that was before I learned about CNN Heroes. Since 2007, everyday people are nominated as heroes for their extraordinary efforts to help change the world. These are some of the people voted as the top […]

  Acan Harriet, an English teacher at Keyo Secondary School, has been teaching for the past six years. Her favorite part of teaching is giving students a chance to work together in small groups. She moves around to each group to work directly with her students, instilling confidence in them as she asks them to […]

[ photo by xPerigryn ] We are all CMJ everything this week, including the theme of this mixtape. Our Music Department team is cross-country journeying to New York City for a week of musical discovery and good times. [Insert plug for our Official After Party with Bandsintown that you can RSVP for HERE.] The artists […]