Can a story change the world?

Paul Mitchell^® has raised money, held cut-a-thons, donated supplies, and provided volunteers for many of Invisible Children’s programmes, including “Displace Me” and “Schools for Schools.”

One theory suggests humans migrated from Africa around 80,000 years ago and began to populate the rest of the planet. Today, Africa is ravaged by poverty, disease, and wars. And it’s the children who suffer most. In Uganda, a 20 year war has left one in every four children without one or both parents. About 95% live in absolute poverty in camps. More than 20,000 children have been kidnapped by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and beaten and brainwashed into becoming child soldiers. Invisible Children is an organisation that started as a movie and has now become a movement to stop this.

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Myth 1
Movies and stories entertain; they can’t change the world.
FACT
“Invisible Children: Rough Cut” was a documentary made in 2003 about child soldiers in the LRA. It was shown in schools all over the U.S. and has spurred awareness, created events, and a non-profit charity, Invisible Children, that focuses on helping former child soldiers re-enter society.

Myth 2
There's nothing we can do about African poverty.
FACT
Mozambique, the poorest country in Africa, has fertile soil and a good climate; however it also has 5 million land mines - one of the many issues keeping Africa poor. Donating to organizations that work with communities to improve these “killing fields” is one way we can help Africa have hope for the future.