Your Stories

Thoughts:
It's one of those movies where when it's over, you just sit there to take it all in. you're speechless.

Inspiration:
I just wanted people to open their eyes. i wanted people to leave behind their cellphones and ipods and little highschool drama for just an hour and be completely submitted to reality. i wanted to take an hour out of someone's life to change it forever. i thought, if my life has been completely changed by this one movie, imagine what would happen if fifty lives were completely changed.

Tell People:
don't take no for an answer. if someone's to busy to take time out of their lives to help you. be patient. wait for another moment. keep trying. don't give up. the invisible children need us.

Story:
i currently attend Singapore American School, the largest international school in the world and in february i heard about IC and the global night commute. I was so inspired by it that i went to my community service group in school and asked for a screening and trying to do the global night commute here in singapore. i got a lot of positive feed back and after some revising, we decided we'd have an inschool lock-in; something different than the usual charitable bake sales we hold at our school. But the plans fell through. The school was just too busy at this time of the year to lease facilities and the teachers just weren't committed enough. the only kid out of 3000 to have watched the movie, i didn't know where to go when april 29th came and the students of singapore went home and slept in their respective beds. when IC launched their google website featuring the video, i used myspace, msn, aim, any means of communication to get people start watching the video. 2 people turned to 5, 5 turned to 10, 10 turned to 20. soon i had people from singapore, to jakarta, to london watching invisible children. What's more, i got fellow students to pressure the faculty to let us have a screening of the movie in school. Finally, on the last full day of the school year, invisible children launched at 3:15pm. At 4:15pm, the room was silent. the movie ended. no one spoke a word. although i'm leaving singapore at the end of the year, i've got a lot of people committed to IC and willing to start up a community club dedicated to donate to IC next year. i'm moving to thailand, and hopefully i'll be able to start something there.

Thoughts:
I was horrified by what I saw. My horror urged me to act. Thank you for getting my motivated!

Inspiration:
A student at Naperville North H.S. gave a speech about the IC project. My sister was the teacher. My sister brought the informaiton to me.

Tell People:
Give your movie to everyone you know. Tell them to watch. Write the president. Write your congressmen. Teach our children about this horror. Raise compassionate kids who will achieve what our older generation has not.

Story:
My sister Elena teaches H.S. English and brought your film to my attention (a student had brought it to her attention...). I own a dance school and our recital theme this year is "world tour." The teadchers were planning to do an African piece for our dance and Elena had just recently seen your film. She told us about it and we decided to make our dance a tribute to the invisible children project. We then decided to invite our older students to come view the film and get proactive. We watched it together, others borrowed it to watch at home with their families and friends. Our plan is to make keychains to sell at our dance recital. The keychain design includes the 8 colors associated with your bracelets and has a globe on the end of it with a banner that reads "PEACE." Our students are hand making the keychains (200 total) and we plan to sell them for $5 at our June 10 and 11 performances. This will give us $1000 to then purchase your bracelets. We will then give the IC bracelets/DVDs to the dancers who helped make the keychains. Just before the teacher dance in the recital we will have a brief introduction of the IC program, there will be a flyer explaining it in each playbill. As a mother I am glad to provide an opportunity for our children to help children on the other side of the world. As a female business owner I feel it is my duty to show young American girls that they have power and can change the world in which they live. As a dance teacher I know the power ofthe arts and hope that this

Thoughts:
I loved it. It truly moved me and made me want to do something about it. I'm really glad I watched it because now i feel like I have made a difference.

Inspiration:
Inspiration: I knew i had to do something. The film just made me cry. I saw what was going on and wondered how people could let this happen? why weren't we doing something about it??

Tell People:
I wish people would try harder to do something about this. not alot of Mead students care. i mean, sure we are young teenagers but geez. we don't have anything better to do. why not show people the movie? even start up a conversation about it. i'm glad i saw the movie, and i'm glad i'm going to africa. The people that think they can't change the world, are normally the people that do.

Story:
Well. I go to Mead Highschool in Spokane. I saw the film and knew I had to something about it. so I talked to Paul, the guy who came to our school to show us the film. and I got involved. I was one of the only highschool students to put together the night commute in our city. I was on street team, art team and photo team. I stayed up night after night making phone calls and getting everything together. I talked to our city and got everything done. it was a stressful time but i'm so glad i did it. now i sell t-shirt and bracelets to all my freinds and other people who want them, And on June 23rd im going to Uganda to spend a little time with the kids. me and a few of college students. I'm the youngest of the people that are going. I have to say im pretty excited.

Thoughts:
It had such a powerful meaning to it. I've seen it 4 times now through school, and each time I cry. Each "invisible" child has sooooo much personality, more than anyone child I've ever known.

Inspiration:
The children were inspiring.

Tell People:
WATCH THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!It speaks for itself.

Story:
My high school, Whitney High, of Rocklin, CA, had showed a 35 min. version of the film in all Geography and World History classes. About 8 of the kids had decided to do something about it. We decided to put on a 2-mile walk(in the day time) to symbolize each of these children's journey. We also had a benefit screening right afterwards and we had 2 of the Invisible Children employees come out and give a speech. We had raised some good money and donated all toward Invisible Children. On May 24, 2006, our school decided to have another screening in case those busy bodies couldn't go to the first one. The second one, we had local bands voluntarily put on a benefit concert before the screening. It made a whopping of $1900. I worked very hard, sacrificed a lot, and donated all my time to these events. Now, I will go to a high school all the way across town to do an orientation about these children. I hope it will raise more awareness!

Thoughts:
The "Invisible Children" Movie was truly inspiring. The movie opened my eyes, as it showed examples of the struggles that young children face in Uganda, Africa.

Inspiration:
The "Invisible Children" Movie was my inspiration for starting the "Invisible Children" Club at my school. The movie, as moving as it was, gave me the motivation to start this club and assist these children.

Tell People:
Save the "Invisible Children"!

Story:
After watching this influential movie, I was determined to assist these children in any way I could. So, I began by starting an "Invisible Children" Club at my school (Bret Harte Middle School). I, the president of this club, held weekly meetings with the club members. At these meetings, we expressed our ideas and thought of the different fundraisers we could hold to help raise money for the "Invisible Children". After coming up with a plan on how to raise money, we put up "Invisible Children" posters/flyers all around the school. We also set-up a date to show the movie at our school and had a movie screening after-school. We collected about $100 dollars in donations at this movie screening! Once we had spread the word about "Invisible Children" throughout the school, we set-up a booth at lunch time to sell "Invisible Children" t-shirts to students at Bret Harte. We sold about 40 t-shirts and collected a lot of donations. For our next fundraiser, we set-up an "Invisible Children" Booth at our annual cultural fair. On this fundraiser alone, we sold over 40 t-shirts, collected over $200 in just donations, and earned a total of $530. We also made a donation box for "Invisible Children" and placed it in the school office, and we earned some donations by doing so. In addition to our fundraisers at our school, one of our club members showed the "Invisible Children" Movie at his local church and earned $200 in donations. Our last fundraiser was another screening for the movie, and we received about $60 dollars in donations. After all these fundraisers, we have now collected over $1,100 for "Invisible Children"! We're hoping to collect more, since many more students/teachers have placed in an order to buy an "Invisible Children" t-shirt. Our goal, as a club, is to earn atleast $1,500 for these children. We hope that by sending in this money, we'll make a difference in the lives of these children.

Thoughts:
changed my life. literally. ive changed what i plan to do with my life because of this movie. it made me realize that i was sick and tired of hearing about bad stuff going on in the world, and not doing anything about it.

Inspiration:
well the movie obviosuly, i mean i dont know how you can see that movie and not do anything about it. i guess im realy interested in Africa too so this was kinda a connection for me.

Tell People:
Just that if you have seen the film, im sure it has touched you emotionally. Use that emotion whether its sympathy or hatred or whatever, use that as your motivating force to do something about it. Its really not that hard, the hardest part is getting started, and then its downhill from there. Its amazing what you can accomplish once you get started

Story:
I go to Leland HS and i think maybe 3 people knew about the situation in Uganda before we did screenings at school. First off i saw the film at the end of January. I was very moved by the film, seeing the children's faces, the real kids who are affected by the war made me motivated to do something. We had a screening at Leland in Febuary and advertised it like crazy around school and the night before i was scared that only like 20 people would show up...i secretly hoped in the back of my mind that maybe 40-50 would come to watch the film, but the next day an astounding 160 people came!!! it was seriously amazing and one of the best days of my life. People were talking about it at school and awareness began spreading. We designed tshirts and sold them at school for $9 of profit per shirt (sold for $15) we ended up selling over 80 tshirts and the most amazing thing about it is that every single day (even 3 months later) i see atleast one, if not two or three, people wearing an IC tshirt. Its become part of people's wardrobe now and its great bc the back has some info about the war and your guys' website so its spreading awareness too. Then we had 2 dodgeball tournaments (each team paid money to play) and we had 12 teams from leland comepete for the top 3 spots where they would further move on to compete against other schools in our district. That intra-district tournament was just a few weeks ago. The audience wasnt as great as we had hoped for, but this tournament is going to become an annual event so hopefully itll rake in more dough next year. And since the first screening we have gotten atleast $200 worth of donations. Anyways all in all since Febuary we have fundraised $1,682 at Leland HS. We even went to the local middle school near Leland (bret harte middle school) to tell their ASB about IC and they started a club and had one screening and sold our tshirts too. Theyve fundraised about $600 now also. I guess thats our story -- the dodgeball touranment, screenings, and tshirts

Thoughts:
I can't seem to get this film out of my mind. i think it is one of the most moving things i've ever watched. it captivated me to do something.

Inspiration:
I was inspired by the filming crew's incredible courage to journey to africa, and bring this situation back to the states. but even more so by the faces in the video, and the interview with jacob and his brother.

Tell People:
Think of anything you can do, but don't limit yourself or have small expectations.

Story:
I saw the movie for the first time on tv while exercising. After the movie moved me to tears i had to tell the teacher of my modern genocides class, mr. gudgel. He has done an excellent job of spreading the word in his classes, and bringing lots of students to global night commute. I am also the leader of a small group of freshmen girls at my church. I had them over one night to watch the video and think of a plan. The girls wanted to meet with our youth pastor to see what the youth group could do. Our youth pastor is a director at the summer camp that the church goes out to every summer and he talked to the camp, and invisible children is the featured fundraiser out there this year. As the first week is underway right now, i'm thrilled to see not only the funds that will come, but also for all the campers and couselors who will continue to spread the word of invisible children and take action.

Thoughts:
It was inspiring.

Inspiration:
The Global Night Commute

Tell People:
America should not be the only country with freedom.

Story:
I saw the movie at a screening at Texas A&M- CC during the National Tour and got involved with the Global Night Commute locally.

Thoughts:
every time that I watch it I feel that God has placed a burden on my heart and I think that I have a calling to go to uganda and do mission work there because I know that God will do amazing things with me and this movie just makes me realize what needs to be done.

Inspiration:
The fact that I can help out with one night of cold and suffering just to help all of those kids.

Tell People:
Don't give up, I heard a kid talking about the GNC before it happened and how that it would not do anything, I turned to him an said "no, its that attitude that wont get anything done." If you don't take the chance then you won't even have the opportunity to make a difference.

Story:
I heard about Invisible Children 2 years ago from a guy named Adam Marshal who worked for them in california. And at that time I didn't think much of it. But as soon as I saw the movie I knew God put it in my heart to help them. so I contacted tv stations and I even got allowed to speak to my entire highschool about it. We made a movie and showed a clip from the movie. and so I took it on with vigor...and then 2 hours before the walk I popped my knee cap out and hyper extended my knee. I would not let that stop me. So I borrowed a hippie staff from my hippie friends and I walked with that hurt knee with a makeshift cast. that is my story. I would go through more than one night of cold to help these kdis and God brought that as a reality as I gave up my pain and suffering for one night and went through alot just to let them have hope. that is my story.

Thoughts:
it's an inspiring film to say the least. I never heard about the children being abducted in Uganda until our school showed a screening of it for chapel. It touched my heart and made me feel sick that i never knew what was happening until now.

Inspiration:
Inspiration: It pains me to know that a war has been going on for almost 20 years and i haven't heard a word about it until now. It makes me mad that our government will not step up and do things necessary to stop what is happening to the children of Uganda. I want to help out and bring awarness to those who do not know what goes on every single night.

Tell People:
we cannot forget, because if we forget we lose this war, and i am not willing to lose this war!

Story:
a couple kids from our school viewed the film at youth group. From then on they knew they wanted to get involoved and get our school involoved. So a couple weeks before school got out, they orginized a one meal a day fast, and then four weeks later we did a 9 mile commute through our town to a church to view the film once more.