Invisible Children Inc. helps Uganda's displaced kids

by Kaitlin | April 30, 2007 at 01:07 pm
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UPDATE: Check out our great photoset of Invisible Children events, here. And check out a great first-person account of a Displace Meevent in Washington, DC by one of our members, here

In 2003 a trio of filmmakers from San Diego, California went to Uganda to make a documentary about the plight of children in the civil war-torn country. They called their film Invisible Children, and it was so successful and inspiring for its creators that an entire organization was set up to help Ugandan kids as a result. A pair of events--Displace Me (which attempts to show the volume and severity of the displacement of children in Northern Uganda) and Global Night Commute (which illustrates that thousands of kids are forced to flee kidnappers who would enlist them as child soliders)--took place at various locations across the United States this weekend.

The campaign has been centered around raising public awareness in the U.S. in an attempt to spur youth into action and to change the current policies of both the American and Ugandan governments, who have largely let the conflict fester. Their means for achieving this is hoped to be the Global Night Commute which took place on April 29, 2006. Youths from around the world converged on urban centers in solidarity with displaced Ugandan children attempting to avoid capture by the LRA, as is prominently displayed in the film. The success of the Global Night Commute inspired another event, Displace Me. Another program run by Invisible Children Inc. is Schools for Schools.
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at 11:22 on May 1st, 2007

Kaitlin,

Thanks for this post. They are no longer invisible Children but rather Visible children as the hands of love is being extended to them now.

I assure you, you have extended your hand of love to them by this post. 

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