By Sarah Yun
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Invisible Children plans to host a benefit concert on March 19 in the Freshman Cafeteria. The free concert will start around 6 p.m. and end around 10 p.m.

According to Juliana Hughey, Invisible Children member and sophomore, Invisible Children members will sell baked goods and T-shirts during the concert. They will also carry around buckets for donations; all proceeds will benefit building a school in Uganda.

“I think that the concert will be a great way to help spread the awareness that children in Uganda need help,” Hughey said.

According to InvisibleChildren.com, the Ugandan Civil War is the longest running conflict on the African continent, and some soldiers are children abducted from their homes and forced to fight. Invisible Children is a worldwide movement seeking to end the conflict and bring the children back home. The organization also raises money to rebuild schools, educate future leaders and provide jobs in Northern Uganda.

The local chapter of Invisible Children was started at CHS three years ago. “I decided to be the sponsor for the club because I thought it was a good cause and I had respect for the kids who wanted to create this club,” sponsor Alicia Noneman said.

Member and senior Cassandra “Cassie” Wild said, “I traveled to Uganda the summer before my freshman year and I was able to see for myself the suffering of the children in Uganda. What I experienced there really came close to my heart and I really care about this cause.”

Wild said she joined Invisible Children because she understood that the children in Uganda were desperately in need of help.

According to Hughey, local bands at this school that would like to perform during the concert should contact one of the Invisible Children members at one of the club meetings. Invisible Children will have an audition to choose five or six bands.

Wild said, “All the money raised from the benefit concert will help give kids our age a chance to have a good future and an education that they haven’t been able to have before. The children there are definitely a lot less fortunate than we are.”