Invisible Children
Submitted by bostongirl on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 02:50.
For years now, it has been a personal dream of mine to raise awareness to youth in my community for human rights abuses using the power of art. Recently, I developed my dream into a goal: to organize a gallery exhibit using artwork created by students from local high schools in an effort to benefit the children of Uganda. Gallery space donated by a nearby gallery is helping to make my goal become reality this March.
Submitted by pearson4597 on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 19:05.
While attending the Mississippi Governor’s School during the summer of 2007, I saw the documentary “Invisible Children,” which shares the plight of abused African children who live in fear of being abducted and forced to kill and felt called to help. So, I showed the documentary to the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade classes at my school and gave a presentation about the Sleep-Out that would occur two weeks later. Once the students arrived at the school, they had time to become settled. Then, everyone went to the auditorium and viewed the film again.
Submitted by asheschee on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 22:51.
I started this club at my school after hearing about Invsible Children at my old school. The program has finished, but during the club season we raised money for children in Uganda that couldn't go to school because it was run down, the books and computers were too expensive, and there wasn't any clean water. We raised a little of $1,000 by sitting in front of grocery stores asking for donations, gift wrapping, and selling scarves, cookies, and water.
Submitted by checkmarks on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 14:52.
In mid-2007, I was on the popular social networking website, Facebook and started a "cause" page on the website to promote Invisible Children Inc(a non-profit organization based in San Diego, CA that is trying to end the 20+ years of war, raging in Uganda). The idea was to promote Invisible Children to high school and college students. When choosing the target audience for my "cause" page, I chose high school and college students because that is the group of people that will change the world. I personally am in that group and hope to have a huge impact on the world.
Submitted by willec on Thu, 11/22/2007 - 17:28.
Since October, a club at my school, Invisible Children United, of which I am an officer, has been working to raise money to aide the crisis in Uganda. My primary responsibility in the club has been to plan, organize, and implement our many fundraising events. For twenty years, a civil war has torn Northern Uganda apart, resulting in 1.5 million people displaced into camps, and a student to teacher ratio of 300 to 1, and the endless persecution of the Acholi people.
Submitted by reflecthim on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 18:39.
I have just started an Invisible Children Schools for Schools club to raise money to rebuild Pabbo Secondary School in Uganda, Africa. Our goal is to raise $10,000 by February, which is going to be very difficult in our low income community of Palestine. We are fundraising in every way we can think of. So far, we've had a bake sale, are selling Halloween candy grams, and have treats and a donations box in the teachers' lounge. And we're only two weeks into the club!
