Invisible Children and School Chest

 Joseph Koney is an African warlord who brutally murders innocent people and children and he enslaves children and forces them to fight for his rebel army (LRA) through brainwashing and fear tactics. Invisible Children fights for the children and people without violence by spreading awareness of the situation, and providing shelter, resources, and technology that improves communication. They build radio towers to broadcast information about the LRA's location to warn African people, and to convince child soldiers that they can escape and return home because Joseph Koney convinces them that their community will shun them for what they have done, but these radio towers are a way to counter Koney's brainwashing. The organization looks to stop Joseph Koney through these non-violent tactics. Barack Obama has sent in 100 troops to hunt down and arrest Joseph Koney to put him on trial for some of the worst crimes against humanity.

I am very impressed by this organizations efforts and how much they have accomplished to help these people who constantly live surrounded by fear and violence. The crisis tracker is a very effective way to combat the LRA because it spreads knowledge about what is happening in Uganda, and the more people that know about the LRA's actions, the more pressure is put onto government officials to take action in order to stop Joseph Koney. I am very happy that DHS selected Invisible Children as the School Chest beneficiary because something tangible is being created through our efforts and money. Invisible Children is using the money we raised to build a radio tower to spread word about the LRA and inform people of danger, and it is also as a way to reverse the brain washing that Joseph Koney is doing on these children, by telling them that it is okay to go home and that they can escape the LRA. I support things like cancer or diabetes research but when we raise money for those types of organizations we never see results of our hard work. Invisible Children is building a radio tower with our money and that is a tangible result of all our hard work and money.