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The Invisible Children
Related to country: Uganda

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The Invisible Children is an organization put together by a a group of college students took a trip to Uganda. They went to document the war but once they got to the village where they would be staying, they learned about a group of kids who live in fear constantly. The children spoke of a group called the LRA(Lord's Resistance Army). They would sneak into the villages where the children were staying and kidnap them. They would take them away to a camp where they would teach them how to brutally murder other people in their village. If the children chose not to comply with what the LRA said for them to do, they would kill them and make all the other children watch. This has been going on since Uganda's civil war started back in the 80"s so now there is a generation of young people who know nothing but killing. Today, the children walk every night at least two miles away from their village just to be safe. The places they go, however, are not the best. They stay at dirty bus stations, porches of hospitals, and sometimes under buildings where hundreds of kids would be at the same time. This organization is raising money to help build school and other things for these children. They have a couple schools already and they have a refugee camp for the kids that were rescued. Here they learn how to make a living by sewing, farming, and other things. Please do all you can to help these kids. Any little thing will help. Go to www.invisiblechildren.com to see how you can help. They sell t-shirts, and bracelets made by the ladies in the refugee camps. They also have videos, and if you can try to watch the documentary that was put together.
Also, the video for the Fall Out Boy song, "Me and You" is based on this.
check it out
help
-james

August 20, 2008 | 8:22 PM Comments  0 comments

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