This was partly because a lot of the school year had been spent at home due to lockdowns and pupils or staff self-isolating, but also because there were other children in the class who regularly seemed to take up significant chunks of my time. Some children pass through school almost unnoticed by staff. They might not shine, they might not need extra support, they might just come in and quietly get on with their learning.
It was fascinating to read the replies and to see how this group were referred to by different people. The always children. The grey children. The shadow children. The missed children. The children that you can sometimes go through the day without interacting with, apart from when they answer the register. None of these descriptions are accurate or fair because these children deserve to be supported, valued and celebrated just as much as their peers. The couple of minutes that it takes is always worth the payoff, even if that payoff is several years down the line.
It will be caused by different reasons in different schools but the outcome is generally the same. No pupil we teach should ever become one of the grey children.
At some point over the next few weeks, maybe spend five minutes putting together a class list off the top of your head. Jon Biddle has been a primary teacher in London and Norfolk for over 20 years. The U. The Ugandan officials arrested the men involved and they were executed via death penalty. If I support IC do I now support the death penalty in foreign affairs my country should have no role in? Invisible Children is an organization for a good cause. They may have some flaws, but the organization as a whole has good motives.
I am sure that Invisible Children wants to have a positive relationship with the general public, and is doing all they can do within their power to make everyone happy. However, the truth of the matter is that Invisible Children is a charity organization, and they cannot live up to that standard. If you have further questions please feel free to visit the Invisible Children website and click on the questions and answers page.
I believe Invisible Children is an organization worth supporting. When I first saw the video Kony , I did not like the organization and what it stood for because I was evaluating the movie and not the organization itself. As I researched the organization in depth my opinion of the motives of the organization changed. I looked at the bigger picture which is getting Kony noticed so that he is one step closer to being captured,and the abduction of children are put to rest.
Invisible Children is a work in progress and there is always room for growth. I am aware that Invisible Children has questionable motives regarding the Kony video but Invisible Children is a growing organization that realizes their mistakes and are learning from them which was stated in the recent video "Move.
For this very reason I will consider supporting this organization. There is no other charity that has done more to support the end of the LRA conflict in the last 10 years. I've watched this organization's work since and also have been to N. The organization is not just about rehabilitation work they also spend money on Advocacy and Awareness and some have pointed this out as a problem but to me that is a nearsighted evaluation.
The political players that have the power to influence this conflict need to feel the pressure from the people so that is why advocacy campaigns are so important. If you want to put a band aide on the situation you can give money to groups that only do rehab work in Africa but i would advise to evaluate if the there is more needed for lasting change, which is what i feel is the case with the LRA that started in N. At the same time, there were many criticisms surrounding the organization.
Many of these criticisms came from money and amounts of donations. They also should release yearly financial reports, which IC has done since Ultimately, I would suggest that everyone should research for themselves before donating to any organization; but, I will definitely support them again and encourage others to as well!
Along with the rest of the general public, I was blown away when the viral video "Kony " outlines the horrible war crimes that Joseph Kony committed. However, I did want to research this campaign and the reasons behind it on my own. After researching IC, I realized that their organization was in some ways helping the people in Uganda.
However their is still much room for improvement with this organization. For example only around 37 percent of their finances go to helping rehabilitate and protect the children that the LRA would take.
This is a number that could AND should be drastically increased. I'm not saying to not donate to this charity, but do some research and carefully consider before you do. I was pretty late in learning about IC, and I suppose that is a good thing. First off, I do believe that IC is a noble cause in what it is ultimately trying to achieve.
According to charitynavigator. The rest goes to staff and management. However, just because it caught our attention for a bit does not make it ok for their finances to be split in such a way that does not make much of a difference to their cause.
Lauren K. In the Kony video, Invisible Children claims that in order to keep the US advisors in Uganda Invisible Children and its supporting members need to raise awareness about the atrocities of Joseph Kony and his army. To raise this awareness, they would wear the t-shirts and put up the posters that came in the action kits. I will not support Invisible Children, but anyone interested should do their own research and decide to support or not support Invisible Children based on that research.
After being initially drawn by the emotional appeal of the Kony video, I did a considerable amount of research. The organization claims by sending a few dollars and purchasing the Action Kit somehow the Ugandan warlord will be captured. My first experience with this organization was watching Kony After seeing the brokenness left by Kony, this film had me sold. The mission of Invisible Children directly fits with my heartbeat for humanity in undeveloped countries.
It encouraged me to intensify my desires and make them actions. I went home eager to share about the charity with friends. Instead, I was shocked to see so much controversy surrounding this organization-- criticisms about their leaders, purpose, and impact.
This confusion left me to explore Invisible Children for myself. After months of researching their website, the form , and other sources, I found that the majority of claims are simply slander based on wrong assumptions, impossible to prove by evidence. Now I am seriously considering supporting Invisible Children and encourage others to do the same. The political unrest can then be linked back to suffering people and an unstable government. Solve the other problems first like AIDS and hunger, by donating to organizations that focus on such causes- like Compassion International and World Vision.
Once the media began saying how crooked the company was, I felt very betrayed. When Invisible Children came out with their new video, it brought back all those strong feelings I had.
I decided to do some thorough research on their finances. In my research I found that, for the most part, Invisible Children have a slightly lower than average financial standing.
They are definitely not the monster that everybody makes them out to be. They are a newer company though, so it is only natural that they put a lot of money into advertising. After having done this research, I feel somewhat renewed in my initial vigor to help Invisible Children. I am more than likely going to donate to this organization. I was judging them based entirely on the video, and personally find their method of getting Kony famous absurd.
But the video worked and achieved its target of making Kony famous. This popularity made me curious and I started doing my research on IC. This lead me to realize that my personal opinion was heavily influenced by all the negative comments on YouTube.
I found out that there are still children suffering because of Kony. The video was speaking the truth and it brought the crime of Kony to the whole world.
I might not agree with their method but ultimately, I will still donate to help them. Over the past few months I have done a decent amount of research on Invisible Children. I have come to the conclusion that they aren't focused on the main issues in Uganda, and aren't providing much relief for the country or its citizens.
The people of Uganda are currently struggling with spreading disease, an unstable government, and many citizens who aren't specialized in any field of work. I believe IC is working for good reasons and could be helpful if Kony was the main problem, but as far as contributing to helping Uganda's actual issues, I would consider supporting a different organization that may be more beneficial to helping with their current issues.
A common misconception is that IC spends too much on salaries and videos, when in reality And they are doing a phenomenal job. If you are looking for a traditional nonprofit, then IC is not for you. They are pioneers in using social networking for social change of this scale, and while they have lots of room for improvement, I firmly believe they are worth our support. Many people, myself included, have based their idea of IC solely on the "Kony " film.
However, by only looking at the film, you get only a narrow understanding of the organization. Yes, the film skims over some details; yes, IC is not financially perfect; and yes, they were clearly underprepared for all of this attention.
But, none of this lessens the fact that they are working towards doing something good. Not to mention that they have done a more than adequate job answering their critics, both through a section on their website devoted to answering criticisms to the release of a new film, which openly acknowledges many of their shortcomings. This shows some serious maturity and growth in a young organization, that has already made a huge impact.
I am strongly considering supporting IC, and encourage others to get the whole picture of them before joining the "Kony " critics. Though the intentions seem genuine, Jason Russell and the Invisible Children charity fail to get past the basics. Another problem with Invisible Children is that this campaign promotes slacktivism and laziness among the country. I sincerely wanted to believe that Kony executed everything perfectly; however, there were too many unaddressed flaws.
Therefore, I would personally discourage anyone from investing in this campaign and charity. I feel as if the invisible children have their ups and downs they were once in my eyes a good organization by having there videos post and showing what their plans where for the future.
But after going through the other views and going on different websites like the Better Business Burial BBB they haven't registered their organization with them.
Which in mind it makes me feel as a person who would be looking to donate more skeptical about donating to the Invisible Children because if your going to have an organization at least make it legal by registering through the BBB. If not then it makes me feel as if your trying to scam me, and others.
I myself was at first skeptical of the way they spent their donation money. However, after further research into their finances, I have found that IC is a pretty good non-profit organization when it comes to financial responsibility. IC is transparent with finances because they display all tax forms and annual financial reports from the last five years. Overall, Invisible Children is not perfect, but they are pretty responsible with their finances.
I would strongly consider supporting them. People think Invisible Children don't help Uganda and expend to much money in the own video. I agree that they expend too much money in the video. But, they still support Ugandan education. I n the past, men in Uganda have had more education than women. Invisible Children expends money to help men and women in Uganda to finish their education. For Invisible Children women and men was the same.
In October for this year Invisible Children a scholarships to college for Ugandan. I complete support Invisible Children and I encourage you to do the same. One of the most common critiques I have seen of Invisible Children is their financial responsibility.
After doing research through articles about what a financially responsible nonprofit organization looks like as well as accounts such as former workers with Invisible Children, I discovered that this organization is much more financially responsible than I had once believed. What most people do not see is that Invisible Children uses many different methods to achieve their goals including doing tours to raise awareness, producing a warning signal over the radio to prevent LRA kidnappings, and providing various recovery programs.
After doing extensive research, my views on Invisible Children have significantly changed and I am considering volunteering and possibly donating to Invisible Children. I have known IC since when I moved to Uganda.
I have see several weaknesses in the organization: 1. They have bought the Uganda govt line about the conflict totally. There is blood on the hands on both sides and to side with the govt in this conflict puts IC in bad company. They spend a lot of their money on salaries in the US and not directly helping the people of Central Africa. They send naive young people to Uganda for short stints to "do good". Having lived in other cultures for many years I know that it takes at least 6 months just to begin to get a feel for the culture--at which time these young people come back to the US as "experts.
They advocate a military solution to the conflict with the LRA ignoring the fact that there are religious leaders in Uganda who have been working to establish dialogue between the Uganda govt and the LRA. IC should be pressuring the Uganda govt to talk instead or just listening to one side of the issue--again blood on everyone's hands.
The military option will only succeed in killing the children who had been abducted. This is a very short-sighted approach. Invisible Children has been criticized through its viral campaigning video, Kony , as cheating and deceiving the public and donators out of their money.
This seems reasonable that they spent money where intended, however, "[Their] game isn't who [ Untrustworthy and intentionally deceitful. They say it was an emotional breakdown. Carmen T. I have been a donor for invisible Children since I did not receive my KONY kit when the video went viral, but I was called by a staff member after the fact Here's why, and I must warn you in advance Since , I have been fully aware of this organization's integrity and willingness to create peace to part of our world.
Before, I never donated. I just watched their films, was shocked as I heard about an ongoing war that was not being covered anywhere in U. I began writing research papers for school peer reviewed searches verified the crisis in dozens of articles , and I began spreading awareness. I attended their Dallas "Rescue Joseph Kony's Child Soldiers" event, where hundreds of us symbolically abducted ourselves and walked 7 miles to a park LRA camp and waited to be rescued by a political figure, someone from the media, and a celebrity.
I wrote letters many letters that day to members of Congress and political leaders, which led to a movement that got President Obama's attention. If you google search photos of Obama signing this act, you can see Laren Poole standing behind him in the oval office. I am also a graduate student at the University of North Texas, where I personally met and have remained in contact with formerly abducted child soldiers and night commuters My efforts, as well as the efforts of thousands have helped end night commuting again, you can research this anywhere and eliminate displacement camps in Uganda research this too , where people were dying of hunger and illness every day.
The LRA had been destroying Uganda for over 20 years, and if it hadn't been for this organization spreading awareness about this crisis, if it hadn't been for these young filmmakers pushing so many people to help, there would not be peace and our U.
Here's why so many people didn't get their kit and why I declined a refund : I personally knew this organization was run almost entirely by volunteers and "roadies" people traveling the country as well as Central Africa spreading awareness and helping.
A warehouse of volunteers were responsible for putting together DVDs, shipping packages of Bracelets created by former victims of war in Africa, as well as other shirts that were printed and sold by order. I ordered plenty of merchandise for events knowing every dollar would go straight to their cause, and it was shipped on time, every time. On top of that, their servers crashed, and millions of orders were not submitted. To make things worse, the three passionate filmmakers whose only dream was to change the world were now being attacked by thousands of skeptics who accused them of scamming and lying to about a very real, ongoing WAR in Central Africa.
This led to Jason Russell's very public mental breakdown. Imagine seeing all the hurtful comments and taking all of that abuse after spending your entire adult life fighting for a cause now everyone believes is a lie? If you've read this much, I hope you realize I'm just a normal person The detractors use percentages, rather than dollars. Any small organization's expenses are a bigger percentage of their income.
If you want an eye-opener, compare the. Before the Kony campaign, Invisible Children had a poor rating that displayed how corrupt the organization truly was. Yet the moment all the fauxtivists learned about the movement, they boosted IC's rating. All they have done is proven they are subject to a mass-bandwagon that clouts their minds and disregard all facts.
Its no better than religion. After watching the video and doing some research I became complete obsessed with this entire story. However when I told my parents they told me to not jump onto the banwagon so fast. All of the negative comments left here have been addressed by the charity on their website. Go to invisiblechildren. Research and make your own decision. I watched this today and I have to say it touched my heart. I am one who usually doesn't believe in US intervention oversees , but the mission of this group is great.
It is very specific, to bring an evil man to justice with the hope of forcing more evil folks to rethink that they can do want they want with no consequences. I would agree they should have an outside board of directors or at least an outside advisory board. Though the trouble with that is that the founders could get replaced by a board of directors so if you started a charity you believed in would you want to take that chance?
Ask yourself what a CEO with the same skills and experience would be making at Merril Lynch or DuPont before you say that they are only out for money. If they didn't care about the mission they would work in the commercial sector for ten times that. Our last report was for the year ended June 30, Please see the IC website for their response to recent questions regarding their work.
Philip Smith CPA". I disagree with IC's approach to fight violence with violence. It will never reach the end. Furthermore, I express disbelief that that so much money is placed in executive aspects.
Most are in fact used to create "awareness" and "advocacy" neither which will help solve problems. I first became aware of Invisible Children last night on Facebok. It touched me in many ways. I commend the three individuals that first brought this serious issue to light in Yes, the salary of a few is high to the average person, but it is only. This is their job as well as their mission. I believe three things need to happen: 1 Kony needs to be captured! This poor opinion is shared by many colleagues in Congo.
IC is known to have a lot of money at their disposal, so much that they don't spend it in an effective manner. Their radio transmitter idea sounds good, but also makes host communities ready targets for LRA attacks. They should publish a full accounting of how much money they raise, from where it comes, and where the money is spent i. Think twice before giving your money to this group. Marius M. Kony is an intelligent, ambitious and idealistic advocacy group using viral activism to spread information about the situation and rights of children in Africa, mainly in Uganda.
As the group has gotten a lot of attention in social media, criticism has begun to surface about bias in communication and non-transparancy in finances using information from Charity Navigator, which the've ironically misrepresented in the same manner as they point out how Kony has misrepresented facts and nuances in their message to the masses.
I think you should look at Invisible Childrens goals, and how they're reaching out to the masses and then decide if you want to be a part of their movement or not. I personally will. I am a former employee of Invisible Children. The ratings you provided for invisible Children inc is not correct. Invisible Children Inc, does not have an external and independent Auditor.
The Data you have used to compile this statististics are false. The salaries of the directors as show is false. That is only the basic salary. The directors of invisible children, also have allowances and bonuses added to their salary. These directors of invisible children are crroks that ought to be charged. The issue here appears to be more about the viral effect on rousing people into action. In , we should accept that precious few people intelligent enough to create stirring propoganda, whether for good or bad, will work for free.
Maybe it is time to drop the cynicism and try to get something different moving and worry about the accounting and motivations afterwards. This organization, yes, has been under scrutiny but seems to be trying to do the right thing. Why can't we ever believe in the good in people? Their financial records are misleading and don't provide explanations for large relative sums being spent on indirect or specifically non-program expenses e.
Do some research before you make your own decision as to whether or not to support any organisation, including this one. Of course they have recently done well to advocate and make the conflict in Central Africa more known, however their claims of direct aid are not well documented and their financial and political support of the war are perhaps making the conflict worse.
From most of what i've read there is a lot to be desired from this and other such organizations. I couldn't in good conscience donate to an organization that proports to help people, nobly and unslefishlessly, as it claims only after it satisfies its career motivations. Salaries for managers in excess of 88, dollars plus massive costs in postage, travel, office rents and unamed expenses?
Sounds like someone who can't be taken at their word to me. I support the cause not the charity. That's how I see it anyway. I believe that Kony should be stopped but the whole thing seems fishy to me. A charity is not for profit and all of it should go towards helping the children not making tons of merchandise and salary. So get your posters and bracelets or whatever but personally I'm not giving them a penny.
I don't mean to come off ass rude so sorry if I did. Just my two cents on the matter. Im glad that this is finally being heard, honestly i didn't know a thing about this until about an hour ago. I can't wait till kony is actually stopped and there will be one less thing to worry about for all the people who live there.
I think this organization is making a difference by raising awareness on a global level and that's what is most important. If their campaign is successful it sends a very strong message to the people committing this type of atrocious crimes--watch out-you may just be next. The CEO's salary is. Overall, that's not too awful. I do a job, I expect to get paid for it. So do the organizers of this charity.
Any organization raising awareness of something so awful and obviously, ignored by those with the power to stop it with no guarantee of a profit deserves some attention. This is just awful. I cannot believe people are using these reviews as a basis for argument when anybody can post one.
He copy and pasted it. It was originally posted in I was very disappointed to find out my donations went to the sole use of the program coordinator to secure a first class ticket for travel. They seem to have a personal burn rate of program money well outside what one would think is the norm. Jimmy N. First of all as a person from Northern Uganda, I would like to thank you, the Martin County Children for your effort to assist the children of Northern Uganda.
How ever i am also sad to say that Organisation like 'Invisible children' have turned from caring organisations to Fraudulent and scam. The directors of Invisible children forgot what they stated back in and have now turned to greed.
The directors of Invisible children have turned this money to become their very personal money. The directors now drive expensive cars and refer to themselves as Movie directors. Peace in Northern Uganda group Sweden. Northern Uganda members of parliament have added 'invisible children' to their list Of NGO's under investigation for fraud.
They have been requested to publicly declare their accounts since however untill today that has not been done.
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