Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to an arm wrapping around you. Instantly, you are being dragged from your home by a man that you do not know. As you are leaving your hut, he shoots your mother and father, and several other men hack your baby sister to death.
Two decades of violence have drenched Uganda in blood. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have captured children, forced them to become soldiers, and brainwashed them with terrible lies. They define training as killing another child, murdering those who refuse to comply. They rub shea nut oil on the children’s skin, and say the bullets will bounce off.
Why Africa is so important to R-E-L.
Why is going to Africa so important to R-E-L?
Everyone knows that Africa is something that is very important to me. I figure that since people ask me questions about 'why' all the time, I might as well explain myself.
So, why do I care so much about Africa?
I think the question that I should propose is 'why not?'
Many of the people who know me well will tell you a get in these very strange moods sometimes. I will be extra fidgety and blurt out randomly “I wanna get on a plane, I just wanna go to Africa”. See I have this slight obsession with East Africa and the injustices that happen there (well many will say it’s much more then slight).
Invisible Children Forced to tote a gun,
