nathen:

gardengrove:

Invisible Children is a non-profit organization that concentrates on the war in Northern Uganda. This is no regular war, for more than 23 years, millions of people have been displaced, abducted, raped, maimed and killed by a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army. A man named Joseph Kony leads the LRA and won’t sign the many peace agreements offered to him. Kony claims to be the next messiah and has about 700 adult followers and not all of them are believers. Since he has such a low number of willing followers, he abducts children from their homes in the night and forces them into being his soldiers. Leading them to a life of violence and turning them into monsters. Against their will, these children are forced to kill, torture, maim and hurt innocent people. The LRA does not take claim of these children, but they are there - invisible. Children that are free are scared to walk the streets in fear of being the next ones chosen. They sleep in large packs in abandoned buildings without much food or water and live on what’s barely available. Kony says he is fighting for the Acholi people in Northern Uganda, but he kills and hurts them too, so no one is really sure what he’s fighting for. On April 25, in 10 countries and 100 cities across the world - people are abducting themselves. Hundreds of thousands of people are walking to LRA camps (parks) and sleeping out in masses with the bear necessities and won’t leave until the media “rescues them.” The point of this is to spread awareness, the media neglects to inform us of the war in Uganda and of all these poor children, so we’re going to make them. Click on the picture to go to the rescue site to see if there’s going to be a rescue in your town and go to it! Get your friends, family, neighbors, coworkers to go too! We’re abducting ourselves to free Joseph Kony’s child soldiers!

I’m just going to keep reposting this until more people reblog, if you can reblog something that makes you laugh, reblog something that matters.

If you haven’t watched this documentary, donated money, said a prayer or done SOMETHING about this, then I highly recommend that you do.  I spent three months in Uganda in 2004 and it was horrible to wake up in the morning and see on the front page of the newspaper that the LRA had attacked again.  To see pictures of a girl with her ears and her lips cut off, to read about the fact that some communities have no more virgins because they have all been taken advantage of.  It’ll affect you. It will never leave your heart.  It will always be seared into your soul.