Event # 1- Invisible Children-

Invisible Children is a documentary about children in Africa. It focuses on children between the ages 5-12 that are being abducted from their families. They are taken into a place called “Bushes”. There they are brainwashed and trained how to kill people using guns, machetes, and knives. The children that are not abducted leave their houses because they fear that they might get abducted if they stay there. As a result, they are force to live on the streets. Some of them escape to go sleep under a hospital floor because they feel safer there. They don’t have any clothes, food or a place to stay. Teenage girls are raped by the kidnapers and others get sexually active at a young age using dirty plastic bags as condoms.
This documentary was shown in the Health Professions Division on Monday October 6. The members of the Rotary Club here at Nova show the documentary because they were trying to raise money to go visit and donate to the children in Africa. I attended this event because I wanted to see why the children in Africa were called invisible. However, I decided to write about this event because after watching the documentary that was the only thing I could do since I don’t have any money to donate to the organization. I wanted everyone to know what these children go through and encourage them to donate if they can.
The documentary, Invisible Children is connected to the college theme of life and death because it is about children dying in Africa. It’s also about children that have their lives taking away from them, they don’t have anywhere to stay, they barely get a meal per day and worse they not in school. Even though they alive, it’s like they don’t have nothing to live for.