Invisible Children


I was watching Oprah the other day and it was a show on the genocide that's happening in dafur and uganda. incredible stuff. she had george clooney on talking about his new mission that he's going after. about fifteen minutes before the show ended, she starts talking about these three college guys that wend to uganda and video taped what they saw. they came home, edited the footage into a documentary and got into an rv and started touring the country trying to bring attention to this issue.



the reason that i bring this up is actually a couple reasons. first, i was amazed that i've met one of these guys. the guy on the far right, his name is laren. incredibly nice guy, i met him at the store. very impressive guy to talk to.

the second reason, something i've never heard of, or maybe i didn't know. something they were calling 'night walkers.' heres what i understood about the story. in uganda, there is this militia type army that raids villages at night and kidnaps their children. children as young as two through fourteen or fifteen and they are forced into the militia. they are forced to fight and forced to kill or, they are forced into sex slavery.
so, to avoid the militia taking them from their village and their family, the children, again, ages two through fifteen, start walking, they walk two hours to get to their destination where they are met by an adult who locks them into a cage type location. it looked just like one of the big dog kennels that people put in their back yard, the chain linked fence kind. they are locked in, until morning. when morning comes, they walk the two hours back home. it makes me want to move to uganda.

you can see their website at invisiblechildren.com. they have raised $500,000 and they are still touring the country showing this documentary to anyone who will watch. they were at notre dame in march. anyway, i suggest you take a look it's heartbreaking.