On April 25th Invisible Children organized a 100-city, 10-country rally called the RESCUE, to demand attention for the plight of children abducted and forced to fight as soldiers in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).

The RESCUE event was meant to simulate what life was like for the child soldiers abducted by Joseph Kony. Participants gathered at an “abduction” site where they marched together in groups of thirty to a LRA camp where they were held “hostage.” While held hostage at the LRA camp participants wrote letters to political leaders in an effort to petition our government to make this unseen war a visible priority. Participants also committed to remaining at the LRA camp until they were “saved.” In order to be saved a political figure or celebrity needed to come out and commit to using their influence to aid in freeing the remaining child soldiers.

Yesterday, at the San Diego RESCUE I acted as a volunteer event coordinator. It was a very exciting and exhausting day. The coordinators arrived hours before the participants to set-up camp and ensure the day ran as smooth as possible. I was on the abduction site team, which required that I sign in participants and guide them to the campsite.


Once all the “hostages” were taken to the LRA camp the participants began settling in for the night, waiting to be saved. Around 9:00 our very own Charger, Vincent Jackson, saved San Diego.

San Diego is a large city and we knew ahead of time that we would be saved but smaller cities throughout the United States are still currently waiting. In order to support the smaller cities, saved cities took busses of participants across the country to increase the number of participants. The concept stems from the freedom riders of the 1960s.