NEW AND IMPROVED BLOG! 

sorry for the inconvenience of having to switch from one site to another, but the new one will be much better when it comes to uploading photos as we walk!

http://web.me.com/kerib27/Walk_With_Uganda/WalkWithUganda_Home.html

How YOU can help:

Hey Y'all!

Will and Keri here.

We hope to soon have a separate page where you can go to see how you can help us. However, for now, this is how you can get involved. 

How YOU can help:

1) Donate: We have three ways you can donate. Donate directly to Invisilbe Children through their website with a tax-deductible donation (please note that your donation is for WalkWithUganda).  Mail a check (Invisible Children will send you a tax receipt) made out to Invisible Children with WalkWithUganda in the memo line to:

          Keri Bryan

          735 University Ave.

          Sewanee, TN 37383

Or, join our facebook cause and donate through that cause. 

2) Be aware. Educate yourself about the history of the conflict, the current situation in Uganda, what Invisible Children does to help, and other ways you can be involved. 

3) Contact us (email walkwithuganda2009@gmail.com) with any questions.

4) Join us: Come walk with us this summer for a part of our journey.

5) Spread the word! Tell people about this blog, the facebook group, the facebook cause, and Invisible Children.

The Basics

This summer, five students from Sewanee: The University of the South will set out on a cross-country backpacking trip from Sewanee, TN to Washington, D.C.

Yes, that's a long way. 

772 miles, to be precise. 

And why would anyone want to do this?

Actually, there is a pretty good reason. 

We think it's a great reason. 

And that reason is: 

23 years of war. 1.8 million people displaced. An army composed of over 90% child abductees. Children between the ages of 5 and 16. And because of this, thousands of children WALKed every day, tens of miles, to reach the relative safety of the city so that they would not be abducted. 

The night commuters.

The Invisible Children.

One of the greatest atrocities occurring in our world today shouldn't go unnoticed. It shouldn't be invisible. 

Though the war technically ended last year, Joseph Kony, the leader or the Lord's Resistance Army, is still at large and is continuing his campaign of terror and abduction in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo near the Ugandan border. Recently, Kony and the LRA attacked a city in Eastern Congo, killing 52, abducting 169, and displacing over 50,000. However, as the war comes to a close and these child soldiers come home, they must walk great distances to reach home and then face a re-integration into society after the horrors they have seen.

And so, we will walk. Hoping that as we walk, the walk these night commuters made daily will be illuminated. Hoping that the walk home for these child soldiers will also be illuminated. We are walking this distance by choice, hoping to raise awareness of the conflict, so that we may inspire others to work for change. We are walking to raise the money needed to implement the long-term, sustainable change that will end this conflict for good, and allow these children to go back to being children. So that they may go to school. Sleep at home, with their families. And play as children do, without the fear of abduction or further war. We are walking to Washington, D.C. so that we may lobby those in power on behalf of those without power, marginalized and oppressed by those who seek to take away their basic human rights. 

We will walk out of hope for those who walk out of fear. We will walk out of hope that they will no longer be...

Invisible. 

We hope that you will join us. 

To learn more about the conflict, read about the history of the war here. 

To learn more about Invisible Children, the Non-profit organization we are supporting, go here.

To check the current news of the crisis in Uganda, go here.

logo.

Basically, Chris Gracey is amazing. Thanks Chris, for this amazing logo!