Global Night Commute

Tonight really launches our family's relationship with the Invisible Children. We will be participating in an event called the Global Night Commute. We are walking down to GreenLake Park in Seattle to sleep overnight and draw awareness to the kids who do this every night in Uganda to keep safe from the LRA soldiers who try to abduct them from their villages. They are forced, to spare their own lives, to sleep in a neighboring town, where a safe shelter awaits them. Many of these children have been commuting for 9 or 10 years. They sleep on a floor, side by side, sometimes hundreds and thousands one next to the other. They spend every night running for their lives.

We first heard of these children through the Oprah show. She featured the three young men who went to Uganda in 2003 to shoot a documentary. They came back with the plight of these kids branded into their souls. They had to do more. They started invisible children, Inc. A non-profit set up to help these kids, bring attention to their lives ruled by terror, set up an education program to help make their future brighter, and ultimately, to stop the war that is threatening them each and every day.

Check out their site. I will be posting more on our personal efforts towards this cause. You can check back and see what you can do to join us.