Kony 2012 campaign.

Now, here's the deal. I assume most of you have heard of the Kony 2012 campaign right? Well, so have I. This morning to be exact. It was indeed very emotional to watch the video about Joseph Kony, and I got really interested in finding information about what I can do to help. The more I looked around I stumbled upon this.

• The picture above is a photograph of the founders of the not-for-profit Invisible Children (founders of the Kony 2012 campaign) posing with weapons and men from the Sudan army. The Sudan army and also the Ugandan army have been critized for having their fair share of raping and looting.

• The KONY 2012 campaign calls for military intervention in Uganda to capture Joseph Kony, and to bring him to justice. But, Kony has not been in Uganda since 2006, so there is no Kony and LRA roaming around in Uganda anymore. In fact, there is a peace process in place with LRA, of course the process is stalling.

• The money that Invisible Children raises by donations from the public is in millions. However, only 31% of these fundings actually go to their charity program, but the charity has never been audited I have read.  These money you fund Invisible Children with go to such things like funding the Uganda's military and the Sudan People's Liberation Army, and both forces have been critized for rapes and looting, and also associated with using rape as a weapon of war.

After reading and finding out more things about this organisation I have completely changed my mind about buying their Action Kit to help KONY 2012 campaign, and plastering posters all over town.

Invisible Children have been critized as a charity ogranization since 2006 when Joseph Koney fled Uganda and to Kongo instead. So, yes, this organization has been critized from the day it was founded.

Instead of linking the video they made about their KONY 2012 campaign, and changing your profile picture to one of their posters to show your support, then you REALLY should read this article.

The article is from november 2006, the year Kony and LRA was smashed away. 6 years later Invisible Children make a video and try to make people think that this is still going on. So go ahead read the article and educate yourself more on the matter. I know I did, but unfortunately it was AFTER I thought they were doing something good. This is not one dimensional, you have to find out more information before jumping to conclusions and re-considering about donating money to a not-for-profit organization.

Here is the link: http://ilto.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/the-visible-problem-with-invisible-children/