Based out of San Diego, California, Invisible Children is a non-profit organization that works with and raises awareness for the people of war-torn Northern Uganda. The founders of IC are Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey and Laren Poole. Jolly Okot, IC's Education Program Director, brought the filmmakers to Northern Uganda in 2003. Okot had a dream for the Acholi people, her own people, that they would be given a chance to have education and peace of mind. She knew that after seeing the effects on the children from the 23-year war, the boys could not ignore the Acholi.

During their film-making adventure in Africa, the three Americans discovered that they were in the midst of a story needing to be told. With three tickets, $300 and the support from their families and friends, the boys set out on their hunt for the truth.

While in Northern Uganda, Russell, Bailey and Poole learned that children were being taken from their homes and forced to fight as child soldiers. The boys met up with Jolly Okot, a pregnant woman who had picked them up and took them to her house. On their way to her house, the group experienced the reality of the Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army.

The village was overwhelmed with people who were trying to escape the LRA's attacks. Every night in Northern Uganda hundreds of children commute to the middle of their cities to seek some protection from the violent, child abducting army.  

In the 1800s, Northern and Southern Uganda were separated into two classes and the Northerners were forced to be laborers and soldiers. The North started to rebel against the Government of Uganda and their forced situation when Alice Lakwena, who claimed to have been given a mission by the Holy Spirit, began the Holy Spirit Movement. After Lakwena was exiled because of the rebellion she led, Joseph Kony began the Lord's Resistance Army, but his rebellion against the GoU was not as well supported as Lakwena's movement. This is when Kony decided to start abducting children during the night and threatening them to be child soldiers.

Kony is said to be like the messiah or Jesus Christ and claims to be able to do miracles. His eyes burn red and he is feared by all. This man has abducted thousands of children, forcing them to be soldiers and threatening them with death if they resist. The International Criminal Court first began in 2002, and Joseph Kony is the first wanted man by the ICC.

After much U.S. involvement, April 2008, marked the time when a peace agreement would finally be presented to Kony. IC founders were asked to video the history making moment of Kony signing the agreement. Deep inside the Garamba Forest waited 200 people for the defining moment of the Ugandan people. During this time, IC founders were able to learn more about the child soldiers on a firsthand basis and give them faces through pictures and videos. Five days of waiting, negotiating and fear led to Kony rejecting the peace agreement. Kony's power only seemed to grow after the peace agreement failed.

On Christmas day of 2008, Kony massacred 620 people and 160 children were abducted. The fury of the LRA grew beyond the Acholi people; they started targeting people in the Congo, Sudan and Central Africa. The rebels began mutilating people who resisted by cutting off their lips and noses.

The film featured a previous child soldier named Jacob. Jacob and his brother were taken by the LRA when he was very young; his brother tried to resist but was killed in front of Jacob by means of machetes. Jacob said he tried to cry but was told that if he did he would also be killed and if he tried to run away he would be killed. By age 14, Jacob was able to escape "the bush" and told the IC his story. Before the founders left Jacob, he broke down in tears telling them that he would rather die than be on earth right now. He asked the founders to help him because nobody is looking out for the child soldiers.

Through the IC programs, many children just like Jacob are given a chance to receive an education and they are given hope to survive. But many are still lost in the bush, without a name. The children simply vanish from the face of the planet when taken; there are no records kept for the thousands of child soldiers brought into the LRA. As the war continues, children are taken from their homes every night and made to carry guns and destroy their own people.

It's easy to get wrapped up in school, finances and whatever "tragedies" invade Americans' lives. The IC opens doors for people to care about others halfway around the world. The world is hurting and thousands of real people, including children, are oppressed and dying by the minute. What will you do?