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MILLIGAN COLLEGE, Tenn. (Oct. 6, 2011)—Student advocates for Invisible Children Inc. will visit Milligan College to share their gripping stories and to host a screening of one of the organization’s latest documentaries on Monday, Oct. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Hyder Auditorium, located in Milligan’s Science Building. This event is free and open to the public.
The event is part of Invisible Children’s 14th national tour, the Frontline Tour. Over the next four months, the tour will raise awareness for Central Africa’s 25-year war perpetuated by rebel leader Joseph Kony and his force, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
Sixteen teams made up of one Ugandan and three North American Invisible Children volunteers, or “Roadies,” will travel the United States and Canada to educate the public about this conflict by screening one of the organization’s latest documentaries.
Ugandan advocates will share their personal stories and the effect of the LRA on their lives after the film. Story-driven merchandise will also be sold at the screening in an effort to raise money for Invisible Children’s Protection Plan.
After terrorizing northern Uganda for two decades, the LRA has since moved into the neighboring countries of Central African Republic and D.R. Congo continuing to abduct child soldiers and attack some of the most remote regions of the world. The Protection Plan is a comprehensive strategy detailing projects to protect local communities and provide rehabilitation for defected LRA child soldiers.
The Frontline Tour aims to raise $1 million for the Protection Plan’s Early Warning Radio Network. Consisting of a web of HF and FM radio towers, the network will give the most vulnerable communities the ability to receive warning of LRA activity and alert security forces to LRA violence.
Information from the radio network will help populate the LRA Crisis Tracker, which provides necessary information enabling governments and humanitarians to respond more effectively.
For more information about the Milligan screening, contact Milton Carter at 423.461.8662 or visit www.invisiblechildren.com.