Invisible Children

This has been on my blog roll for quite some time and it’s an issue that no one can simply overlook. Invisible Children is a non-profit organization that is helping the children in Northern Uganda. The Invisible Children organization also started a campaign called Schools for Schools; the Schools for Schools program creates a partnership between American schools and Ugandan schools. My school has decided to join the Schools for Schools program. When ever me and some friends go to people and try to get some donations it discourages us more to hear the people say that they don’t even know what it is. Below is the trailer for the documentary. Personally, after watching the whole documentary I felt it was pretty hard to simply juss brush off the situation, or forget about it.

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“In Northern Uganda, children walk long distances every night from refugee camps to towns where they can sleep safely for the night. They are trying to escape abduction from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) which has been waging a rebellion against the Ugandan government for merely 20 years. the children are being kidnapped and forced to fight in the guerrilla war that is tearing apart the country. This terrorist parliamentary group routinely mutilates, tortures, and rapes civilians. The force is made up child soldiers, as young as 8 years of age, who are taken from their homes, brainwashed and desensitized, and forced into a life of brutality and violence. Once abducted, any educational prospects or future, for that matter, are lost and they undergo training in “the bush”, coming deadly fighters.“

***[In my opinion] the video below is graphic***

For more information visit Invisible Children.com, if you would like to purchase the documentary or any other products go here.