Stolen Children in Uganda

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Stolen Children in Uganda
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Africas Longest Running War

• For the past 21 years, the Lords Resistance Army
  (LRA) and the Ugandan government have been waging
  a war that has left nearly two million innocent
  civilians caught in the middle. The Ugandan
  government has failed to protect its citizens
  from this rebel militia that has murdered mothers
  and buried the young, leaving an entire
  generation of youth that has never known peace.  

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The Root

• The current conflict in northern Uganda has its
  immediate roots in the troubled times after
  Ugandan independence in 1962, when military
  groups of different ethnic and ideological
  composition aspired to and often succeeded in
  overthrowing a succession of Ugandan governments.

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The Problem

• An entire generation has never known peace. Tens
  of thousands of civilians have been mutilated or
  killed by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in
  Northern Uganda for 20 years. Since 1986, the
  leader of the LRA, Joseph Kony, has abducted and
  brainwashed more than 20,000 boys and girls to
  fight as child soldiers in his militia, with
  roughly 12,000 abductions occurring since 2002.

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Joseph Konys LRA

• The LRA did not receive the same support as the
  rebel Holy Spirit Movement because of its
  extreme tactics. With dwindling support for their
  cause and heightened government offensives, the
  rebels resorted to abducting children and
  indoctrinating them into their ranks. It is
  estimated that more than 90 of the LRAs troops
  are children.

This organization has been declared a terrorist
organization in the United States
Joseph Kony
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Mission Statement

• Invisible Children improves the quality of life
  for war-affected children by providing access to
  quality education, enhanced learning environments
  and innovative economic opportunities for the
  community

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Night Commuters

• The name for children who trek nightly to the
  relative safety of urban centers because of the
  threat of attacks and abductions by rebels of the
  Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)

Boy prepares to sleep in a safe refuge for the
night.
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'When the Sun Sets, We Start to Worry...'
portrays the extraordinary resilience
demonstrated by the people of northern Uganda as
they piece together lives disrupted by violence,
and cherish hopes and dreams whose fulfilment
depends on the return of peace to their region.

• This issue has been called the forgotten crisis
  in the United Kingdom, even though it has trapped
  tens of thousands of innocent people in a cycle
  of violence and suffering that seems to be
  unending.

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Be Informed

• You can book this tour to come to your High
  School. A team of individuals travels throughout
  the United States to inform young people about
  this serious issue. They hand out t-shirts,
  bracelets, posters, buttons, and lots of new
  media that can update you on the subject.

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Displace Me

• http//www.invisiblechildren.com/displaceMe/