I look back and think, I can't believe I thought that. But it makes sense cause I didn't do research or watch the documentaries.
I have been active with Invisible Children since fall of 2008. My senior year of high school. The fall before the amazing months and night of my life, which lead to so much more to who I am today.
Alot of you know all of this about me, but today I was looking back on The Rescue, Lobby Days, and the crazy ideas that came with Schools for Schools.
So in the past before I attended JCCC, I heard they were awesome. So awesome that it landed JCCC in the radar of Invisible Children HQ.
Since then I have tried so hard to live up to that expectation and to me previous semesters have failed money wise, although so much more was complished. Multicultural night and the annonymous donor. Dodgeball Tournaments.
Now I do believe that this semester, yes this semester, will bring JCCC back to their radar in case it ever left. Why do I say that? Because currently, today (November 12, 10:06p), JCCC is in third place in our cluster with $2,550. Amazing right?!?
Well that's not all. This last Wednesday, the leaders of Invisible Children Club met with the Center for Student Involvement at JCCC to discuss the screening for this upcoming Tuesday(November 16th, 7p; which you are all welcome to come!). And me having the heart of a Roadie. It came out during the meeting. I told them the statistics I have learned in the past years from previous Roadies and certain Advocates from Uganda. They were shocked, one even got goosebumps. They got so excited that they wanted to help fundraise!!!! So now Invisible Children Club and Student Senate are in a competition to see who can raise the most money before Schools for Schools is over. It's fun competition, but JCCC is going sooo much father than I have ever seen for Invisible Children! And I am so excited! So excited that I may be able to go to the San Diego Summit.
Not only is all of this exciting, but this next Friday is our first Jammin' for Change Benefit Concert! I am so excited to have some great bands such as: Not A Planet, Le Grand, Brent Lee, Elevator Action, I am excited that over 100 people say they are attending on Facebook. Which means in my mind we can raise sooo much money. So much. We may be able to meet our goal of $2,500.
Even though this is exciting too. What could be more exciting you may ask. Well in 8 days, President Obama is going to be releasing a strategy to apprehending Joseph Kony, leading comander of the Lords Resistance Army, and the other commanders. It's just so close I can see the children returning home to schools in Uganda that are sooo much better conditions than when they left them.
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I don't know how people could not love a organization like this.
I mean they don't just focus on the children, they also focus on their families and providing them with jobs to support their families and allow their children to attend schools.
I got a bracelet for Christmas in 2008. It's not your ordinary bracelet. This bracelet was made from reeds grown in Uganda, made by a Ugandan woman, and tells the story of a child affected by war.
My child's name was Grace. A girl who was raped, and kept her child. Who never stopped smiling, even after what happened. Grace, too, was a woman apart of Invisible Children's bracelet campaign and supported her family through this. Now I just read on Invisible Children's blog, that Grace is now going to be working with MEND, another way Invisible Children helps woman in Uganda. I just hope when I do buy a bag from MEND that Grace's name will be in it, just so I know that I am still supporting her all these years.
Just think her children might even go to Gulu Senior Secondary. A school I helped to rebuild through my many years apart of Invisible Children. That would be absolutely amazing! I am even being really touched by this thought. If this happened, I would absolutely cry, and be so happy to know that I've been apart of an organization that's been with someone for so long, since childhood, to motherhood. Amazing.
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