When Chelsea was a senior in high school I had watched a video by a group called Fall Out Boy. At the end it told about the "invisible children" of Uganda who had to hide a night so as not to be kidnapped and traumatized into being child soldiers for the LRA under Kony's rule. I shared that with Chelsea and she took off with it! First she chartered a "Schools for Schools" chapter at Valencia High School, then as a Freshman at UC Merced she chartered the first Invisible Children Chapter on campus. Last weekend she organized a community event called "Gulu Walk" to raise funds for the children of Uganda and to encourage all of us to write to our representatives to stand up for Disarmament of the LRA. Some one once said -- "No one cares about Africa" -- with all the media attention today -- do you know how many children are still missing in Uganda? Sometimes I really wonder ---"who cares about Africa."
Follow the links for more infor and the news article on Chelsea's event
www.invisiblechildren.com
http://localsearch.mercedsunstar.com/sp?aff=1100&keywords=chelsea+wood&x=0&y=0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT434G38OBg
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