A Noble Cause

A recent organization that has been put in the spotlight is Invisible Children. Invisible Children has been in the spotlight since their Kony 2012 video hit the internet last year. Many celebrities such as Ryan Gosling and Rihanna support Invisible Children and their noble cause. Invisible Children was founded in 2004 by Bobby Bailey, Laren Poole, and Jason Russell to bring awareness to child soldiers in Uganda. The organization also brings focus to the Lord’s Resistance Army, which is commonly known as the LRA, and their leader Joseph Kony. Invisible Children is working on bring the end to child soldiers and the LRA and others like them who use children as soldiers.

The organization was founded in 2004 by three college students, who traveled to Africa in 2003 and filmed their journey. The three of them learned about the LRA and Joseph Kony while in Northern Uganda. While in Northern Uganda they learned about children who would commute during the night to avoid being caught by the LRA and becoming a child soldier. Bobby, Laren, and Jason all felt like no one else knew about any of the atrocities happening in Africa except the people who live there and they wanted to spread the message. They started to release their films to the world and helped spread the word about the heinous crimes in Uganda.


Joesph Kony's army is constantly moving to different civilizations, Uganda being the main one. But now Joesph is moving to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Southern Sudan and central Africa. The invisible children organization is trying to become world-wide. However, millions of people saw the video and some even made an effort to help cure this problem.


The boys who founded the organization were deeply troubled by what they saw and heard from the young children in Uganda. They promised them they would take action and provide a better environment for them. As soon as they returned home they began to spread the word and rally people to help their cause. Today, Invisible Children has a lot of followers who support and make donations to the charitable organization. The group even makes videos and does presentations at schools in order to raise more money. Invisible Children is such a good cause and hopefully one day soon they will get Joseph Kony and his followers so that many African children can live happy and safe lives
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