Children with pure hearts could remind us things that might have long overlooked.
KONY 2012, a documentary produced by non-profit Invisible Children, has gone viral in the past couple days, receiving millions of views on YouTube and Vimeo. The video has also, however, begun to receive significant backlash from organizations and publications questioning the authenticity of …
Visible Children, a Tumblr dedicated to evaluating the legitimacy of the KONY 2012 campaign, raised some points Wednesday morning which have resurfaced in numerous publications.
“Invisible Children has been condemned time and time again. As a registered not-for-profit, its finances are public. Last year, the organization spent $8,676,614. Only 32% went to direct services (page 6), with much of the rest going to staff salaries, travel and transport, and film production. This is far from ideal, and Charity Navigator rates their accountability 2/4 stars because they haven’t had their finances externally audited. But it goes way deeper than that.”
KONY 2012 (by invisiblechildreninc)
Can you believe that Jacob, the child featured in this film suffered so much and deprived of love and care that he would rather be killed rather than living under the fears of being adducted to be child solider by Ugandan rebels led by infamous Joseph Kony?
Joseph Kony topped the list of the International Criminal Court’s most wanted criminals . This video is part of the international campaigns that exposed Joseph Kony’s war crimes that displaced, killed and adducted children to be child soldiers and prostitutes.
