What is Invisible Children? Invisible children is a revolutionary movement against the horrible acts being committed in Africa, more specifically Uganda. Invisible children was founded by 3 young men who went to Africa just too have some fun, then they saw what was really going on over their, what not being reported in the media. These 3 young men are Jason Russel, Laren Poole, and Ben Keesey. For some more information and an up close look watch their video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOrzBOauLyo
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| Joseph Kony |
Who is doing this? The LRA are committing These horrible crimes. The LRA is lead by Joseph Kony .What does the LRA do exactly, they take kids from southern Uganda and take them to the north gives them weapons and turn them in to cold ruthless soldiers. What happens if you don't go or don't cooperate? You are killed ruthlessly in front of everyone to be made an example of. Why does the LRA take these young innocent children you may ask? No one really is sure what goes through the sick mind of Joseph Kony to do these terrible things, to take these kids and turn them into solders.
Who are these invisible children exactly? The invisible children are the children taken by the LRA, they are called invisible because they are basically invisible to the world. They have no way of communicating with anyone outside of their villages no Internet no phones. These children are typically between the ages of 9 -12 when they ripped away from their homes and villages.
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| Young child solder of Uganda |
Some of you may be hearing about this for the first time and think that it is terrible. What is even more terrible is that this has been going on for 23 years and most people probably haven't heard about it before. Do you understand why they are invisible now?
Their are many ways to make a difference the organization takes donations and does many other things to help the children in Uganda. For more information visit their website
http://invisiblechildren.com/homepage you can also track what is happening in Uganda directly through this LRA tracker
http://www.lracrisistracker.com/
