It got the world on fire for this topic. Kudos to social media!
It also got some backlash and skepticism stirred up.
To keep the conversation going and to try and keep us informed, (which, if you ever give money to an organization, you should be INFORMED about it's practices - whether that organization is Forever 21 or World Vision) I wanted to share some links and counterpoints with you.
The Washington Post attempts to hear both sides of the story.
This Tumblr's whole angle is that Invisible Children is not seeing the big picture - that they are doing more harm than good and their well-intentioned battle cries are awakening beasts they aren't prepared to battle. The author of this blog and some articles here, here and here all raise some good questions:
- What about IC's score as a charity on Charity Navigator and their transparency as a NPO?
- What do we do after we take down Kony?
- Uganda is not a democracy. How will our tactics affect the people there?
- Kony isn't in Uganda... are we barking up the wrong tree?
- Ugandan children have disease, prostitution and poverty as their number one worries now... what about those threats?
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