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Invisible Children
(I don’t know if I’m in the right place for posting this, so I apologize if I’m not.)
I don’t mean to depress anyone, but in the spirit of spreading awareness of suffering, I’m telling you all about a humanitarian crisis taking place in Northern Uganda, where children as young as eight are being kidnapped nightly from their homes and forced to fight as soldiers in a war that has been raging for twenty years. Out of fear of being abducted, tens of thousands of children living in remote villages travel great distances each night to nearby towns, where they sleep unattended in public places. Due to the conflict, 1.7 million people have been forcibly displaced, 130 people die each day because of violence, and an estimated 20,000–50,000 children have been pressed into service.
I recently saw the film Invisible Children: Rough Cut, which documents this tragic story and exposes horrors that I cannot begin to relate. I also learned of the nonprofit organization, Invisible Children Inc., that was created by the filmmakers, and of the Global Night Commute that took place on April 29th: in 150 cities, more than 80,000 people commuted from their homes to sleep outside in support of these ‘invisible children.’ Needless to say, I was inspired to take action. Everyone who sees the film is urged to tell everyone they know about it, to spread the word, so that’s what I’m doing. If you’d like to learn more, please visit www.invisiblechildren.com.
Thanks for reading, and a lotus for each of you.
I don’t mean to depress anyone, but in the spirit of spreading awareness of suffering, I’m telling you all about a humanitarian crisis taking place in Northern Uganda, where children as young as eight are being kidnapped nightly from their homes and forced to fight as soldiers in a war that has been raging for twenty years. Out of fear of being abducted, tens of thousands of children living in remote villages travel great distances each night to nearby towns, where they sleep unattended in public places. Due to the conflict, 1.7 million people have been forcibly displaced, 130 people die each day because of violence, and an estimated 20,000–50,000 children have been pressed into service.
I recently saw the film Invisible Children: Rough Cut, which documents this tragic story and exposes horrors that I cannot begin to relate. I also learned of the nonprofit organization, Invisible Children Inc., that was created by the filmmakers, and of the Global Night Commute that took place on April 29th: in 150 cities, more than 80,000 people commuted from their homes to sleep outside in support of these ‘invisible children.’ Needless to say, I was inspired to take action. Everyone who sees the film is urged to tell everyone they know about it, to spread the word, so that’s what I’m doing. If you’d like to learn more, please visit www.invisiblechildren.com.
Thanks for reading, and a lotus for each of you.
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The lotus, I lay at the feet of my statue of Kwan Yin and she weeps.
Thank you for sharing this as well as for the link.
Adiana:type: :usflag:
Namaste,
Kim
You're doing a great thing.
I'll investigate this...I'll get back to you as soon as I get some time to browse the site
Thanks for the Lotus-smells real good!
Cheers,
Xrayman
And I still have a solid year to think about ideas for when *I* get to college.
Awesome suggestion!
I'll ask the Model United Nations sponsor teacher at my school if this'll be one of the topics addressed at MUN Conference this year. I hope so - even the Darfur crisis is starting to fade away, so we need to bring back visibility of African problems.
Thank you for your post, Rambling!