Today, Friday Feb. 6th, Uganda HELP will be maintaing a digital letter writing campaign in the Johnson Center from 10am to 2pm at Kiosk C.

We will be writing to President Obama, reminding him to honor his promise to raise the human rights violations of the Lord’s Resistance Army into the international spot light.  With the aid of Resolve Uganda we sent Barrack Obama this letter:

Six months ago, you wrote a letter to Resolve Uganda’s members about the violent attacks and abductions of children committed by the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, stating that, “…the international community can and should do more to resolve this horrendous situation, and I will continue to press this case.”

As a member of Resolve Uganda, I thank you for your concern about this deeply saddening crisis. Even as I write, the LRA are actively abducting more children in the DR Congo and South Sudan. In the past two months, they have also massacred over 800 innocent civilians.

I write today to ask that you live up to what you wrote, and take action to end this crisis and promote sustainable peace. Specifically, you should develop a strategy to apprehend top LRA leaders and prevent them from committing more atrocities, help ensure better protection for vulnerable civilians, and provide the humanitarian and development assistance needed for affected communities to recover.

If you cannot make it to the kiosk today, we encourage you to write your own letter at home by visiting this website.