Press Release: Invisible Children Awareness Week
POSTED ON November 21, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
INVISIBLE CHILDREN
CONTACT:
Katie Lewis: kl1297@txstate.edu
512.944.2513
INVISIBLE CHILDREN AT TEXAS STATE TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE WAR IN UGANDA DURING A WEEK LONG EVENT
Representatives from media-based nonprofit Invisible
Children’s Texas State University chapter to show latest film followed by original
members of Invisible Children personal stories by their Ugandan peers
The war in Central Africa has become the spark for this movement. It has forced hundreds of thousands of young people to become active in their participation in foreign affairs. One such event was sponsored by Invisible Children at Texas state.
The week of April 9– 13 2012, Invisible Children at Texas State, a media-based nonprofit dedicated to ending Africa’s longest-running war, will spend a week raising awareness about Invisible Children. Invisible Children exists to raise awareness about the 25-year-long war in Central Africa which has been sustained by a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA is especially notorious for abducting children and forcing them to serve as soldiers.
The week of April 9– 13 2012, Invisible Children at Texas State, a media-based nonprofit dedicated to ending Africa’s longest-running war, will spend a week raising awareness about Invisible Children. Invisible Children exists to raise awareness about the 25-year-long war in Central Africa which has been sustained by a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA is especially notorious for abducting children and forcing them to serve as soldiers.
The week long event will include a poetry night at The Coffee Pot, an
art auction at Wake the Dead, and they will screen its latest
documentary, Tony, in the Centennial building. The event focuses on awareness and advocacy regarding the
war and a special speaker will attend from the heaquarters. Her name is
Angwecha, and she goes by Collines.
The film, Tony, documents the life of a young Ugandan, Tony,
and follows the past eight years of his life, which have been marked by
violence from rebel groups like the LRA. The screening will be in Texas State’s
Centennial building, located on the quad. The event is free and open to the
public.
"The most successful event from this last Awareness Week event was the screening," said Brenna Murphey, President of Invisible Children at Texas State. "We had probably just under 300 people attend."
"The most successful event from this last Awareness Week event was the screening," said Brenna Murphey, President of Invisible Children at Texas State. "We had probably just under 300 people attend."
For more information on this organization and to join the
fight, visit www.invisiblechildren.com or Invisible Children at Texas State's Facebook Page.
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