ソフィア・ブッシュのインスタグラム(sophiabush) - 6月24日 18時44分
These are my friends David and Sam. I've known David, through Invisible Children, for many years. I just had the pleasure of meeting Sam on this trip to Uganda. Both of these men glow. They are so full of joy, purpose, & gratitude. And both of these men were kidnapped by the LRA when they were children. David managed to escape after six horrific months. Sam just came home last year, after 24 years of living captive in the bush. You'd imagine that victims of such a war would be closed off, angry, or afraid. These two are never not smiling. They are so welcoming, funny, & positive. Being home is a total miracle for them. They will share their stories, terrifying and unimaginable, with candor. They are looking forward. David has a passion for education access, has worked with IC, reintegration efforts for former LRA victims here in Uganda, and now a partnership with #PathwaysToPeaceUganda. His mission, as he puts it, is to give people their dreams back. To find out "who they want to be in this world and let them be it." His work brought me to tears. His dedication is unparalleled. So many aid groups are gone now that the LRA is deep in Sudan. The programs that IC still supports here are among the few left rescuing those that come home. David is committed to continuing until the last LRA fighter surrenders. He greeted Sam upon his homecoming, they've become best friends. And Sam has been using his voice to make radio broadcasts (using the tower network IC helped to build!), send defection fliers into the bush -- with his photos & messages of safe homecoming -- to other captives of the LRA. The largest single defection happened last year, thanks to Sam's messages, when 46 people came home in 1 day. As these men know, the conflict still exists. David told me that "if someday there are only two LRA fighters left, there is still a war. There may as well be thousands. They will keep fighting." It's often easy to feel exhausted by global issues, to lose focus on what's happening around the globe, to feel disheartened & thus turn away. There is nothing disheartening here. There is only hope. Hope that each of these men once thought was lost. It's here. Keep watching. #Hope
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