the invisible children

I spent a portion of my evening watching a film called The Invisible Children. It was made by four guys who traveled to Sudan to document what's going on with the civil war that has been going on for nearly twenty years. The title for the film comes from the focus on the kids who are abducted and made to become "child soldiers" by the rebel groups who are trying to overthrow the government; they sleep piled up by the thousands together in the city where they can be somewhat safe from kidnapping and then they commute everyday back to outskirts of the city where their families live. It breaks my heart to be reminded that there are wars going on in underdeveloped countries and genocide occuring yet it seems that the vision of the countries with the resources to do something about it, the problem becomes "invisible." I don't know how well I'm going to sleep tonight...

www.invisiblechildren.com