Hej, jag heter Louise, är en just-turned-22-tjej och bor i Malmö. Har ett genuint intresse för grafisk kommunikation, stora tavlor med nakna kvinnor, fotografi, webdesign och journalism. Den här bloggen finns för att stimulera sysslorna ovan samt andra historier, så allt hänger med!

Who is KONY?

I'M SURE MOST of you have heard or read about the KONY 2012 campaign by now. An organization, Invisible Children, is working for the mission of getting Joseph Kony captured - to put an end to the abduction, murdering and raping of children going on in African countries.
And, in usual order, when something like this is being noticed by the public eye - people start to talk about it. Post it. Tweet it. You name it.

And people start questioning it.

It's good to critically examine what has been said. You want to have your research on the matter, you want to know what it is about to have a say in it. But this is where I think people get distracted. They use Google to find information about it and start to narrow their opinions down by reading into details. Learning how only a "low amount percentage" of the organizations spent money actually went to the helping cause. How they could "give so much more".

This is where, I believe, the message is being lost by the individuals. It is good that the campaign created debates, intriguing more people but it's no longer have an opinion about the problem. It's about having an opinion about the campaign. There is a lot that can be said about these types of things but that shouldn't be the point.

This is not me backing out of the discussion, this is me highlighting the importance of it. That people are talking.





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