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As the sun sets, eight-year-old Tony Bazilo knows it's time to leave his family yet again. With only a few schoolbooks in his hands, he makes the all too familiar night commute, in the dark, from his village, Lacor, into the city of Gulu, Uganda. Walking for miles, Tony travels with other children from his community to their camp; it's safer there. When Tony and the children reach their destination, they discover yesterday's rain standing an inch deep on the floor. Before Tony and his friends can settle in for the night, they must mop up the water as best they can with their clothes, blankets and buckets. This floor is their desk for homework and their bed for sleep. After clearing out as much water as possible, Tony and the other children lie down and pray they aren't found in the night.
Sixteen years ago, that was Tony's reality. He spent his days trying to get the best education possible in Uganda, a country located in central Africa, and spent his nights hiding from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel army led by Joseph Kony. According to Tony's documentary, Kony's army would invade villages in Uganda at night and kidnap children to fight in their battles. Because of Invisible Children, a non-profit organization existing to help end the use of child soldiers in central Africa since 2003, Tony's fear and night commuting came to an end.
In the last decade, businesses, organizations and campaigns like Invisible Children have gained popularity. Instead of just making a charitable contribution, people can still support causes while getting something stylish in return. Offering products from necklaces to wine, companies such as Falling Whistles, TOMS, Invisible Children and ONEHOPE exist to offer products to people in exchange for funds to benefit others worldwide.
Sara Jawhari, KU's Invisible Children club
co-president, walks around campus with her black messenger bag. It's not until you see the bag up close that you see "MEND" stitched into the side and know it's different than other messenger bags. MEND is a program Invisible Children created to stimulate northern Uganda's economy by providing jobs for women, Jawhari says.
MEND bags, made from Ugandan cotton, are and produced at Invisible Children's sewn product workspace in northern Uganda. "IC seamstresses produce hand-crafted bags, all which bear the name of the individual woman who made them and come with a card that explains who made your bag," says Monica Vigo, Invisible Children public relations intern. "The card has a link that takes you to an exclusive bio video introducing you to the seamstress."
Fifty percent of all purchases go towards funding Invisible Children's campaigns to raise awareness and support while the other half goes directly towards the children affected by the LRA and their families, according to Invisible Children's website. Out of 1.8 million displaced Ugandans, an estimated 900,000 have been able to return home and end their nights of commuting to refugee camps because of Invisible Children's work
Invisible Children isn't the only campaign raising awareness on the use of child soldiers in Africa. While they help those affected by the LRA, Falling Whistles exists to raise awareness of child soldier use in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is located just west of Uganda. There, a young boy is commanded to the front lines of a war between the Congolese Tutsi rebel army and the Hutu rebel army, an ongoing war since 1997, according to FallingWhistles.com. The boy isn't trained or strong enough to use a
gun, but Laurent Nkunda, Congolese Tutsi rebel army leader, doesn't leave this child soldier empty handed. As the young boy fights back tears, he's handed a whistle and sent out to serve as a temporary barricade. As he stands beside other child soldiers, he places his whistle in his mouth and takes a deep breath. Waiting for the Hutu rebels to approach, he hears the thunderous chants getting louder and louder, and then, it's time. The young boy sees the army and blows. Out goes his final breath, the whistle an alarm sounding to scare the enemy and alarm the Congolese solders the war is imminent. This boy is one of six million other fallen whistles in the last decade, according to the website, because of the continuous battles between the Tutsi rebels and Hutu rebels – a conflict tracing back to the 1960s when Belgium lost control of Central Africa.
Falling Whistles, a campaign started in 2008, has a mission to stop the war in Congo by raising awareness of the country's devastation. Founder Sean Carasso was in Congo when he met five child soldiers who had escaped the rebel armies. Busco, Bahati, Serungendo, Claude and Sadiki were their names. No older than 15, but old enough to carry a gun, the boys told Carasso about the "whistle blowers," the younger child soldiers.
"When Sean got back from Congo, he didn't have answers. Overwhelmed with the complexity of the problem at hand, he went to parties, screaming at people to pay attention to the deadliest war of our time," says Ashley Hogrebe, Failing Whistles intern coordinator. "Eventually, he stopped getting invited to parties because no one wanted the crazy guy screaming about Congo around."
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Hogrebe says soon after, a friend of Carasso's bought him a gift to keep the children soldiers alive in his heart - a vintage
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whistle bought off of eBay. "When he wore the whistle, he didn't have to yell anymore," Hogrebe says. "People would ask him why he was wearing a whistle around his neck, and it gave him a chance to elevate common conversation rather than destroy it."
It was then the Falling Whistles campaign was launched and whistles became a protest symbol. Falling Whistles sells necklaces online for anyone to buy to raise awareness about the war in Congo. All proceeds from the whistles go towards the rehabilitation of those affected by war in Congo, according to Hogrebe.
Allen Schaidle, a sophomore from Metamora, Ill., has a Falling Whistles necklace and it's not him starting the conversations about the whistle – it's other students. "At first when people notice the whistle, they joke around
its television rights until the six-year window closes. That sounds good, but what stops a Texas or Oklahoma from leaving in four years, sacrificing two years of television money in exchange for a fat, new deal in, say, the Pac-12 or SEC, and taking a potential spot from a Missouri or Kansas later on? Nothing at all.
So please don't pretend Missouri is looking to hightail it out just as everything is getting settled, because at best it's a six-year window of stability and at worst it gives Texas and Oklahoma a few more years to figure out what they want to do. A six-year deal spells stability like Mc Hammer spells financial credit. Missouri not pursuing its options at this point would be irresponsible. Of course, if Missouri ends up leaving for greener pastures it puts Kansas in a tough spot in this realignment game. Emotional tirades from Kansas fans toward its neighbors to the east are understandable, but if the last 16 months taught us anything, it's that it's every school for itself.
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off-oull screen, he is practicing his shot for any scenario: fadeaway, free throw, upright jump shot and leaner, left and right. Three-pointers, mid-rangers and layups, he is leaving no shot behind.
"Ty is playing the best basketball from a point guard that I've seen." Freshman guard Merv Lindsay said.
Lindsay said Taylor's shot has proper lift, meaning that his shot takes a trajectory that maximizes the chance of the ball dropping into the hoop. A line-drive shot is usually more difficult to convert and a rainbow shot can be just as flawed. Taylor works several hours each day to find a happy medium and become consistent and dependable from the perimeter.
rather than simply catching and
"The real good shooters train themselves to shoot the same way every time," Taylor said. "Even when they've got a
TYSHAWN TAYLOR Senior guard
"The real good shooters train themselves to shoot the same way every time."
shooting.
"You never know when you're going to get it," Taylor said of attempting a shot off the dribble.
However Taylor is the starting point guard in a primarily half-court offense and will likely have the ball in his hands more than any other Jawhawk. So when coach Bill Self wants to get Taylor's shot going, he will likely have junior guard
"Tyshawn's been a great leader, has a much better attitude and it's shown on the court," senior guard Conner Teahan said.
a finger after fighting with the football team is now a role model and motivator for the younger players. The Morris twins had that role last year and now it belongs to Taylor.
Leading a team and knocking down jump shots in the offseason is different than doing the same in the heart of the conference schedule. But his teammates are confident that this will be a different year for Taylor, the scapegoat point guard of the past.
"When you have somebody that you can rely on and that people have respect for," Teahan said, "it makes it that much easier."
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Senior guard Tyshawn Taylor is fouled in the final minute of last season's game against Illinois. Taylor is focusing on shooting in practice this year.
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