Invisible children

Deerfield high school is raising money for the invisible children in Uganda. After I saw the documentary on Invisible children I found it extremely heart breaking that it’s taking so long to get these children help. This is genocide. The world should be coming together to help other people just like us. Living in Deerfield many of the people out here make plenty money to spare. I’m sick of hearing that our school chest fund raising money should be used locally because we need help too. Do we actually need help? With what? Road construction? Fixing up more schools? People in Uganda are dying and being tortured everyday of their lives. They are the ones who actually need help. Our road construction and fixing schools here can wait. You know why? The things that we need here locally always get fixed. We know that we are privileged and whenever we need help, help comes. People in Uganda are fighting this alone. This is something that people in the United States will never have to face. We don’t all live in constant fear that we and or our children will be abducted and forced to be soldiers who will be trained to kill and massacre villages. If we need help locally people here have the money to spend on it, the fact that those who have money and don’t want to spend it locally and would rather spend it somewhere else shows that they know there is a better use for their money that can go to a great cause. We’ve had local problems for years, many people never contributed to it, but once those same people heard about invisible children they were willing to help. This doesn’t mean that we are taking away money that could have been used to help us locally, because the people who live here could have donated their money whenever they wanted to help our local community. They chose not to and they chose to donate to the invisible children. So the money was never “there” locally so there’s no money that is being taken away. Plus living in such a privileged community we know that were safe, we will have food, we can live without fear. Children and families in Uganda have never had a day in their lives where they have not feared the LRA, or that they have not felt hunger. Our small problems can wait. Our problems are not life or death problems. The people living in Uganda NEED our help. The people in Uganda need to feel peace, harmony, and safe. The same feelings many of us in the United States take for granted every day of our lives. The priorities here need to change. Lives are more important than any “local problems” we might have.