The Lord's Resistance- Northern Uganda

This has been something that I have been incredibly passionate about recently. I did not know that this was going on until one of my friends told me to watch the movie Invisible Children. There is an army called the Lord's resistence led by Kony, who is a crazy man, that goes around Northern Uganda, raiding the villages, while killing and abducting the children in the village. His army forces them to do horrible things like kill their siblings, parents and other villagers. They abduct these children and make them walk for miles on end to Sudan and force them to learn how to kill and basically brainwash them. His army rapes the girls and puts most of them in their harem. If you want to find out more about this act of crime & feel led to get involved somehow, please look at these websites:

http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/uga_crisis/intro-ugacrisis.asp

http://www.invisiblechildren.com/home.php

and watch these movies:

Invisible Children & "Soldier Child" by Neil Abramson.

There are so many things in our world that we turn our back too because we are either ignorate of the issue or are too self absorbed in our own lives to care.

PLEASE MAKE A DIFFERENCE BY GETTING INVOLVED IN SOMEONES LIFE, EVEN IF ITS NOT WITH THIS ORGANIZATION!!!!

Kenya

My friend Emma just returned from a missions trip to Kenya. She was there for 6 weeks and worked with a boys street center there and a housing project. While there, she helped the boys learn how to sew and to make items that they could sell to help them to earn money so they could go back to school to either finish their primary/secondary school or go to a welding school. There are about 5 guys that need to be sponsored. If you are wanting to help support these guys, please let me know & I'll get you in touch with my friend. It will cost around $45 dollars a month (or £25 a month).
"Don't sit around wondering how you can get involved, just go for it and get involved in making the world a better place."