Do you have a heart, if you do join Displace Me.?

When Hurricane Katrina hit this country, we saw for the first time what a displaced American looks like. Now we鈥檙e asking you to voluntarily become displaced, leaving the comforts of your homes, to imagine for 24 hours what it鈥檚 like for the millions of people in Northern Uganda who have been displaced for more than ten years.


What is a displaced camp?

The Lord鈥檚 Resistance Army (LRA) has abducted thousands of children, subjected them to torture or sexual violence and forced them to fight in a violent guerilla army for 21 years鈥攎aking it the longest running war in Africa. In hopes of providing protection from this rebel militia, the Ugandan government forcibly evicted its Northern citizens from their homes鈥攇iving them 48 hours to relocate into camps. Today, more than 1.5 million Northern Ugandans remain far from secure, suffering nearly 1,000 deaths per week due to inhumane living conditions in the camps.

Alcoholism, sexual abuse, HIV/AIDS, inadequate sanitation and lack of education have caused immeasurable damage to two generations and the near-total destruction of Acholi culture. Water is scarce and people are reliant on food to be delivered by foreign aid. If the food isn鈥檛 delivered, the people starve. This April, the already meager rations delivered by the World Food Program to the camps will be cut in half due to lack of funding鈥攚ith school feeding programs and support for HIV/aids victims soon to follow. This will indisputably increase the number of deaths among those already suffering from severe malnutrition鈥攎ostly among women, children and the elderly. That is why the timing of this event, and your participation are so crucial.

鈥淒isplace Me鈥?is the nationwide event giving Americans the chance to respond.

By traveling to one of our 15 camps and gathering together, the strength of our size will make a visible statement to our government and media that the citizens of the U.S. demand action in ending the war in Northern Uganda, in order to send the Acholi people suffering in the camps and the abducted children back home. The point is to travel; the point is to become displaced yourself.


Saturday, April 28, 2007 say 鈥淒isplace Me鈥?and leave your homes to bring them home. Here are the cities where our camps will be located.
Seattle - San Francisco - Los Angeles - Phoenix - Denver - Austin - Kansas City - New Orleans - Chicago - Nashville - Atlanta - Pittsburgh - Orlando - Washington D.C. - New York

Please go to InvisibleChildren.com and sign up to a camp in your area and send the night outside to help the children who spend every night outside fearing for their lives.

I am not advertising as one person said I saw the movie in school today and it made me want to spread this around because it is not a widely known problem.

I'll be in DC! Hope you can make it somewhere and be safe.

Yay, I'm all signed up! I'll be in NYC!

Unfortunately, I can not participate for physical reasons, but I want to commend you for your efforts regarding this horrendous situation. It's absolutely heartbreaking and it's our duty as human beings to put a stop to it. God bless you for your efforts and I hope this campaign will be a great success.

Ignore the negative comments such as the one above.

I have been voluntary displaced for more than 20 years.

Thanks for sharing.

dude...this place isnt for advertising...i have a heart

I saw Boogie Nights the other day, it didn't make me want to recruit porn stars. Take your advertisements to the classifieds.