Completed School House in Uganda
The charity work that Wakeupnow is doing through Unityone is just starting to kick off. Wakeupnow is a very young company and it is awesome to see that the focus of helping others is an actual guiding principle as the company starts to grow.
UnityOne Foundation, the charitable arm of WakeUpNow, is now working with Invisible Children, a non-profit organization. Invisible Children Charity works to build schools and supply books for the orphaned children in Northern Uganda.
Founded by three college students from California, Invisible Children’s mission is to bring awareness to the plight of the children of Northern Uganda caught in the middle of a civil war. The war is between the government of Uganda and the rebel group, (Lords Resistant Army; aka LRA). This horrific rebel group kidnaps children and forces them into becoming child soldiers.
The LRA has ruined the schools and villages in Uganda in their efforts to give the children the feeling of hopelessness. This is done to ruin the hopes, dreams and opportunities for young Ugandan children in an effort to force them to join the LRA’s cause. Invisible Children is now raising books to send out to Uganda. If you would like to find more information about them please visit Invisible Children’s website.
Megan Lee, a Junior at Timpview High School in Provo, Utah, has already gathered over 2,000 school books for Invisible Children! Her goal is to raise a total of 5,000 books by December 25th 2009.
Megan has brought her goal to the UnityOne Foundation. Impressed by her efforts, Unityone has agreed to help Megan with her crusade. They are asking everyone involved with WakeUpNow and anyone else to donate three school books, preferably Jr. High, High School, or College Level books. The donated books you choose have to be either the Scholastic Books symbol, or a barcode to ensure proper distribution.
If you would like to join the cause simply bring your books to your local Wakeupnow opportunity meeting, or to our main office at 3507 North University Avenue, Suite 200, in Provo, Utah.
You can find the locations, times, and addresses of the Wakeupnow opportunity meetings here.