Invisible Children

Description and Purpose: The goal of this organization is to generate awareness about the events and people in Northern Uganda. Northern Uganda is in the middle of a civil war between the government and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA is a group that kidnaps children and then trains them into soldiers. They have put together several movements in order to let the people in the US know what is happening in Northern Uganda. Their first activity was called the Global Night Commute and now they are starting an event called Displace Me. The main goal of these different events is to raise awareness and educate the people about what is going on outside our country.

Evidence: The organization has a main website: http://www.invisiblechildren.com/home.php and they have created a movie about their first trip to Uganda.

Claim: The claim of this movie is that there is a crisis going on outside our country and we need to become more aware of it. The children of Uganda are going through something horrible and we should notice and take as much action as we can in order to assist them. It is not easy, and won’t happen in a matter of days. The creators of the documentary believe it is possible with time and dedication.

Audience: The audience is anyone. They have created websites and several different movies. The circumstances that are shown in the movie are really shocking. By creating this documentary, they did not have a specific audience in mind. They just wanted the word about Uganda to reach people.