During ACT/MME week, Freshmen, Juniors and Seniors spent the week working on a special service learning project designed around the Invisible Children program. Invisible Children is an organization dedicated to ending the use of children soldiers in Uganda and DR of Congo as well as helping restore peace and prosperity to northern Uganda. They do this through film, creativity and social action.

On Tuesday, students spent time doing some interactive learning about Africa and setting the context to explain the conflict in Uganda and surrounding areas.  

On Wednesday, we screened and discussed the original Invisible Children film, Invisible Children: Rough Cut.

On Thursday, representatives from the Invisible Children program came in and screened their new film Tony, which is about the life of a boy who was a night commuter in Uganda and has since grown up and begun working with Invisible Children. The representatives included Achiro Fionah. She is 22 and grew up in the midst of the Ugandan conflict. There was then time for discussion with the Invisible Children representatives.

After lunch, the students went back to their grade level advisories and developed Action Plans to think about how the school was going to get involved and then presented them to the entire group. There was enough momentum from this past week that we started a club at KWoods to focus on this issue and had our first meeting this past Tuesday.

One of the main plans of the Invisible Children club is to participate in Invisible Children's 25 movement schoolwide. For 25, participants are asked to stay silent for 25 hours on April 25, raise $25 and also write 2 letters to their congresspeople to let them know that we support funding the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act that IC helped get passed last year. 25 represents the 25 years of war that the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) has created. All the monies raised go to support IC's Protection Plan. The Protection Plan funds radio towers in the DR of Congo to notify communities where the LRA is and a rescue and rehabilitation program for children soldiers.

relationships and developing character through action and real life experiences.  

To learn more about Invisible Children, visit their website, www.invisiblechildren.com.