ISU event

I attended the Invisible Children event. During this event, there were a handful of young adults from all around the country presenting a video of the “Invisible Children”. In this video, there were a few young men went on an African adventure to help these children in Uganda, Africa. The meaning of their trip was to help rescue these children who were being kidnapped at night by an evil name named Joseph Kony who was a member of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA). He would kidnap these children and raise them as child soldiers. The beginning of this conflict started with problems with the North and South of Uganda and in the last two decades, 30,000 children have been abducted and transformed into soldiers.
Not only did Kony kidnap these children, he would torture them by mutating parts of their body and there was a massacre that killed over 300 children. If children tried to escape, they would be found and killed by the LRA. Some children were hiding in sewers so Kony and the rest of the LRA would not find them. There were interviews of some of the children in Uganda. They were talking about how scared they were of being kidnapped by Kony, it was very heartbreaking to watch. When these young men reached Uganda (the ones trying to stop Kony’s kidnappings), they wanted to form a peace agreement. Initially, Kony agreed to the peace agreements but did not show up to sign them.
At the end of the showing, the young adults came to the front of the room to answer any questions we had about the horrific things happening in Uganda. They also talked about a fundraising event being held in Chicago. They really encouraged all of us to attend and show our support for bringing these young soldiers home.