A walk around campus and down College Road will take place April 18 in order to simulate the displacement felt by the individuals expelled from their homes in Africa.

“We’re trying to live in their shoes through our walk downtown,” Paschal said. “We walk from campus, our safe hold, to another place in order to displace ourselves.”

The walk will end back on campus near Fischer where everyone will sleep outside for the night.

“We bring art supplies and draw, paint and write love notes to the children [in Uganda],” Paschal said. “We then box those up and send them to Invisible Children, Inc. and they take them directly to the schools they’re working with and give them to the kids.”

Members at UNCW have also been writing letters to senators and trying to get the news out about the organization around Wilmington.

“It’s been incredible,” Paschal said. “We’ve had really good advertising and a hard working staff.”

A film is also being created for the theatres that will help get the word out even further. On a political front, a peace treaty is in the process of getting signed to end the war in Uganda, inspired by Invisible Children, Inc.

While the documentary “Invisible Children: Rough Cut” was introduced to UNCW two years ago for awareness purposes, “Black is for Sunday,” a story of the displaced individuals in Uganda, was shown this year in Kenan March 3.

The nonprofit organization, Invisible Children, Inc., was founded five years ago after three college filmmakers from California traveled to Africa in search of a story. What they found was a tragedy that inspired them to create a documentary exposing the realities of the effects of the war in northern Uganda on children.

“I first saw the video [Invisible Children: Rough Cut] in January of 2005 at a church conference in Tennessee,” said director of the program at UNCW, Jonathan Paschal. “Bobby, one of the original organizers of Invisible Children, came and spoke to us, which was unheard of to get to see and meet him at the time.”

He added, “You can’t watch the video without tearing up no matter how strong you think you are. You’re going to be broken in some way.”

Moved by the video, Paschal and a few friends brought the issue to UNCW and currently work with the Seahawk Village staff to organize events and advertising.

“We knew we wanted people to see the children, what they have to go through, and their psychological suffering,” Paschal said.

The first screening on campus two years ago was followed by a walk downtown to camp out overnight on the streets. Around 900 individuals filled Kenan to see the documentary and more than 300 people joined in the walk.

This year, Paschal wanted to focus less on awareness and more on the lives of the children displaced from their homes into camps by the government. It was originally done for protection measures, but the camps are similar to prisons where malaria and malnutrition strike frequently and isolation swells.

“Black is for Sunday” follows the life of a 15-year-old boy without a family who is living in a displacement camp in Africa. Drawing a large crowd, UNCW viewers got to watch the new documentary as well as listen to four volunteers from Invisible Children, Inc. who travel to different schools to show movies, answer questions, and sell materials.

“I was only 17 at the time [of joining],” said volunteer traveler for IC Andrew Mittelstadt. “And it was one of the only organizations that told me I could do something and get involved.”

“We need to target high school and college students because our generation is the one that will grow up with the idea [of awareness about the issue] and carry it with us,” Paschal said.