Now You SEE Them…
Imagine walking miles each night just to sleep. Imagine that the reason that you do this is out of the terrifying possibility of being kidnapped, drafted into an unwilling army of recruits who are taught to kill and maim—and those kidnapped and unwilling to become killers and maimers are themselves killed or maimed. Then, imagine that you are in this situation—and you are only six years old. Such is the reality of life for thousands of children in Uganda, who find themselves caught in the middle of a “religious” war being led by a pseudo-messiah named Joseph Koni. These are the invisible children, and there are many people currently working to make these invisible ones visible.
What can you do? The last Saturday of this month, in metropolitan areas all around this country, young people are going to be commuting into the centers of those cities to sleep overnight, to raise awareness of the plight of the Invisible Children. Go to the Invisible Children website and find out more…and speak up for those who are thus far invisible.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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