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Invisible Children

Invisible Children. Crisis in Uganda. There is an orphan crisis in Uganda. Currently the country is home to nearly 1 million children under the age of 15 who have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. What is the LRA?.

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Invisible Children

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  1. Invisible Children Crisis in Uganda

  2. There is an orphan crisis in Uganda. Currently the country is home to nearly 1 million children under the age of 15 who have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS.

  3. What is the LRA? • The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), led by Joseph Kony, commits numerous abuses and atrocities, including the abduction, rape, maiming, and killing of civilians, including children.

  4. The LRA has abducted large numbers of civilians for training as guerrillas; most victims are children and young adults. The LRA abducted young girls as sex and labor slaves. Other children, mainly girls, are reported to have been sold, traded, or given as gifts by the LRA to arms dealers in Sudan.

  5. Malaria, respiratory infections and diarrhea are the main causes of infant-toddler mortality. Approximately 20,000 babies are infected by HIV annually through mother-to-child transmission. Nearly half of the estimated 2 million orphans are orphaned due to AIDS, with the total expected to rise to 3.5 million by 2010. Issues facing children in Uganda

  6. Issues facing children in Uganda • The LRA has abducted more than 25,000 children since 1986. • In the conflict-affected districts, around 40,000 unaccompanied children – the ‘night commuters’ – walk every night from their homes in outlying villages to urban centers, in search of protection from the threat of LRA abductions and attacks.

  7. “Invisible Children” • CNN video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FOnOFVloiA • Invisible Children Documentary clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ped11Culq0

  8. What should the U.S. do? • What Human Rights violations are being placed upon these “invisible children?” • Why are they called “invisible children?” • What are some things that people can do to help out the situation? • Is it our (the United States’) obligation to help out the situation in Uganda? Why or why not?

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