Invisible children

For once, I am glad I went to a CLW and not because I am only two away from completing my requirement. I am glad because the CLW impacted me.


Children fear for their lives. They move every night to sleep in the streets of cities for they will be safe there. They fear they will be abducted by a rebel group who will force them to kill or be killed. They are trained to be soldiers or sex slaves. They gain no education, starve, kill others, and die. The world has turned a blind eye to this.


The atrocities that are being committed in Northern Uganda are horrendous and reminiscent of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. At the time, the world stood by and did nothing as thousands of people were murdered. Our response as a country to this new crisis should not be an echo of our response to the Rwanda genocide twelve years ago.



As a country and as a people that care, we have a responsibility to take a lead in the quest to find resolution to the problem More then 30,000 children have been abducted from towns and camps to sustain the Lord’s Resistance Army and ninety percent of the region’s population of nearly two million people has been relocated into Internally Displaced People Camps that lack food and security.



What exactly can we do?

We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

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Odd thought

Weird to think that a year ago today how uncertain life was for me. I had no idea where I was going to college, what I would be majoring in, or if I would ever run cross country again. I guess everything turned out for the best.

Cara