Awareness day

April 25^th is an awareness day for invisible children. What you do is: 1.) go 25 hours without speaking from 7 p.m. on the 24^th to 8 p.m. on the 25^th 2.) Try to rise 25$ or more (5$ for 5 friends) 3.) Continue to tell everyone about invisible children without talking. The challenge is yours to conquer. This is a hard task because I know that for some of you (including myself) it is going to be hard to NOT talk for a day. I am going to put duct tape on my mouth so I remember not to talk; I suggest that you do the same. Tell all of your friends about invisible children and about the awareness day. Thank you all so much for listening to me. We all need to speak out without speaking. Go to http://www.invisiblechildren.com/ for more information.

Survivors

A young college girl named Florence Apuri was abducted by the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army). Here is her story:

They broke into our dormitory in the middle of the night and rounded us up – 24 confused and terrified young women… We were walked, at gunpoint, for hundreds and hundreds of miles over three days and nights, resting no more than 30 minutes at any point in time.

After the first day’s walking, we were all packed in a tiny grass-thatched hut and told to sleep. No one wanted to sleep near the door for fear the rebels would rape us in the night, so we piled up on top of each other by the corner of the hut. Sleep was unheard of in such situations.

Eventually we were taken to the rebel leader, Joseph Kony, who told some of us, including me, he was going to release us. We worried it was a trick to kill us, but eventually we believed him enough to flee. For those who escaped, the stigma was almost overwhelming. None of us expected such a level of abuse and discrimination: labeled wives of rebels, victims of rape – most girls who were engaged were swiftly disengaged by their fiancés.

She escaped to her home town and later worked with the ActionAid International Uganda as a consoler to other girls who have been abducted tby the LRA. See there website for more infromation about Invisible Children at http://www.invisiblechildren.com/ 

Thank you for reading this (yes-it is a true story)

~Ashley 

Invisible Children

I am here to show everyone what is going on and how WE can fix it. The war in Uganda is terrorizing four countries. Joseph Kony is on one side, and you would not believe how he is fighting this war. He is using innocent, scared, and broken children to fight this war.

He abducts them and forces them to fight this war with no mercy. These children are being abused and what they are asked to do is appalling. We need to help the afflicted and reach out to them in their time of need. These children need our help and we need to give it to them. Please go to their website at http://www.invisiblechildren.com and see what we can all do to help our children.