A lot of people are getting really involved in the campaign, and this is for very honourable motives. However, the trouble is that not everything is what is seems, and in this case the awful truth is that the campaign is certainly not going to be having the effect that many people imagine it will have. In this case, it is clearly outrageous that children were kidnapped in order to support a resistance movement, but it cannot be assumed that any charity claiming to be fighting against it must be honest and the money you give will be used in the way you expect.
It seems that for a start, Kony hasn't been in Uganda for six years, and therefore claims that he is threatening the children there must be taken skeptically. Furthermore, where the money this charity collects ends up is also questionable, because only a third of the donations actually end up in Uganda.
The article Loathsome Pete quoted says much more, but the clear lesson is that anything as political and driven as much as this ought to be looked at first, because sometimes what you find is not pretty.
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