They call them the “Night Dwellers” - a ghostly parade of hundreds of children trudging in silence along the dirt roads of northern Uganda. Each night they come from the outlying districts into the town centres to sleep in open spaces to avoid being kidnapped by the child soldiers of Africa’s strangest rebel group, The Lord’s Resistance Army.

In a continent bedevilled by conflict, there is nothing in Africa as grotesque and bizarre as the magic voodoo war being waged by the LRA’s child soldiers in Uganda.

Led by an illiterate former altar boy named Joseph Kony, nephew of a voodoo priestess, the LRA is an army of up to 20,000 mostly kidnapped and brainwashed children.

Over the past 17 years, Kony’s conscripted children have killed, raped, tortured and maimed thousands of Ugandans and have displaced more than a million from their homes.

Since The Lord’s Resistance Army was formed in 1987, 20 thousand children have been kidnapped. The preferred age is 10 to 15. Amnesty International estimates there are 120 thousand forced child soldiers in Africa.
via Religion News Blog

Okay bloggers - time to stop talking, reading and just go do.

We bloggers have done it before.
Cycle Around the Circuit
Goats and pedicabs.

Let’s go for it again.
Sarah McLachlan is a well known Canadian singer. Her new video World on Fire is out.
Have a listen.
Want to see where her money is going?

Then go to Waving or Drowning, Mike Todd’s blog.
Mike worked on Bay Street (Canada’s Wall Street) and worked with World Vision.
He understands how your 10 bucks will get to where it needs to go.
Don’t chew on it, don’t hesitate.
There are people on the ground, trying to save these kids. We just don’t hear much about them - World Vision, War Child, Christian Solidarity International.
Got 10 bucks?

See, every day we are hit with bad news.
And we get numb.
And we think we can’t do anything.

Of course we can.
Go listen to World on Fire.
Let the music be the incentive you need to give up a few cups of Tim Hortons coffee today.
Be a little less helpless.
Get subversive.
Be radical, resist evil.
It’s called the gospel - where your heart is.

Go do!