Anti-Kony Advocate Skypes with Peters Township High School Students

Kony 2012: Everyone recognizes those words and what they mean, but do they actually know about the Kony campaign?

Joseph Kony has been the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army since 1986. Approximately 66,000 children have become soldiers and sex slaves since then. That—in no country—should be OK.

I’m sure most people have seen the “Kony 2012” video on YouTube. The creator, Jason Russell, gives facts about what Kony is doing to the children in Uganda and—in a way—tears at your heartstrings in order to get your money for the campaign. However, he does not go on to say any more information about the campaign.

The Invisible Children organization wants you to click the share button, watch the videos, and order the bracelets and the T-Shirts to raise money to help save the kids in Uganda—but how much money is really going to that?

If you have seen on TV—or read online lately—Grant Oyston blogged about the Kony 2012 Invisible Children group.

Oyston is a college student at Acadia University in Novia Scotia, Canada. He became highly educated on the group and decided that the world should know where all the money is really going.

You can read his blog post here.

Oyston writes that he strongly opposes Invisible Children. He goes on to say that the organization is a nonprofit—meaning that the profits and expenses are public.

Last year, the organization spent $8,676,614.

Jedidiah Jenkins, Invisible Children's director of Ideology, spoke about the campaign.

“Thirty-seven percent of our budget goes directly to central African-related programs, about 20 percent goes to salaries and overhead, and the remaining 43 percent goes to our awareness programs," he said. "… But aside from that, the truth about Invisible Children is that we are not an aid organization, and we don’t intend to be. I think people think we’re over there delivering shoes or food. But we are an advocacy and awareness organization."

I had the chance to video chat via Skype with Grant Oyston on Monday at . Lindsey Myers, the school librarian, knows Oyston through another organization in which she is involved.

He explained that he agrees Kony is “an evil man,” but he thinks that the message Invisible Children sends is that “anybody can change the world, and it's easy.” Oyston stressed that he believes otherwise.

“Anyone can change the world, and it’s difficult," he said. "But you should do it anyway." He answered questions from various students and talked about what he has gone through since his blog was posted.

Since his post, Oyston was offered to be flown to Uganda with Angelina Jolie to see what is happening—he declined in knowing that the money used to fly him out and pay for all of his expenses would be paid for by the organization—and that is not OK to him, he said

He was also recently interviewed by MTV.

Check out Grant’s blog for updates regarding Kony 2012.