Blog Archives
Welcome to Invisible Children Uganda
January 21, 2013 by Bethany Williams
Just this morning, we welcomed a group of students and staff from Franklin College in Indiana who were traveling through Uganda and decided to swing by the Invisible Children Uganda (ICU) office while in Gulu. Obviously everyone can’t just hop on a plane to Uganda, but we thought you might like a peek inside the [...] Read More
The results will come: a Ugandan businessman’s perspective
January 14, 2013 by Bethany Williams
In the Invisible Children Uganda (ICU) lobby display case, some small reed bracelets caught the eye of Mr. Owor Deogratius Fredrick, director of Rocola Robugeco Uganda Ltd. printing company in Gulu. Fredrick remembered seeing his parents wear the simple, adjustable bracelets when he was a child, and they always held a fascination for him. “I [...] Read More
Uganda: Photo Friday
December 21, 2012 by Bethany Williams
Coming this Christmas: The Teacher Reciprocal Exchange! Six teachers from northern Uganda will be coming to teach in classrooms across the U.S. this December and January. They are assigned a partner teacher and will be able to learn new skills and techniques in the classroom as well as share their own teaching styles and culture [...] Read More
Village Savings: learning the basics
November 26, 2012 by Bethany Williams
Invisible Children Uganda’s (ICU) Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) provide community members with an opportunity to save money, earn interest, and take out loans to start up their own businesses. The 95 savings groups meet once a week, and those meetings are overseen by a community facilitator. Facilitators are also trained in teaching Functional [...] Read More
Legacy Scholarship: measuring progress
November 13, 2012 by Bethany Williams
Mentors for Invisible Children Uganda’s (ICU) Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) work full time following up with students and helping them to navigate the challenges they face as they pursue secondary and university education. Last week the ICU Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team sat down with mentors to train them on how to record quantitative and [...] Read More
Legacy Scholarship: using time wisely
November 5, 2012 by Germina Nanfuka
Making a plan is one thing, following it is another. How to create a personal timetable and stick to it was the topic of discussion during an interactive group mentoring session for Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) students at Gulu High School last week. The purpose of the gathering was to share ideas on how the [...] Read More
Teacher Exchange: meet Patrick
October 31, 2012 by Bethany Williams
“It’s great to see students who start with lots of problems improving,” Drago Patrick, a mathematics and geography teacher at Gulu High School, says. By partner teaching with Teacher Exchange educators who have come to Uganda in the past, Patrick says that he has learned to be more patient with his students. “It has [...] Read More
Tony: film internship reflections
October 29, 2012 by Bethany Williams
Tony, a Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) student, reflects on what he learned during his internship with the Invisible Children film team in Uganda: It’s been a very wonderful journey for me since June 21st, 2012 when I started my internship with Invisible Children Uganda’s (ICU) Dream Factory 2. I have learned a lot of about [...] Read More
Teacher Exchange: Meet Jackie
October 25, 2012 by Bethany Williams
Adong Jacqueline, or Jackie, is currently a teacher at Gulu Senior Secondary school. She has been teaching for the past 12 years, mostly in Kampala, but also for a brief time at an international school in Khartum. “I love traveling because you meet people, see new places, and get to learn new things,” she says. [...] Read More
Legacy Scholarship: 100 new university students
October 22, 2012 by Germina Nanfuka
As one of Invisible Children’s Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) students in secondary school, Mercy Aloyo is appreciative of the supporters of IC for being able to finish her education. She did so well, that she has now been awarded a university scholarship through LSP for development studies at Gulu University. “On joining the university I [...] Read More
