Local Students Spread Awareness of Uganda's 'Invisible Children' With Movie Screening

A new community service club at  is hosting a free screening of the latest documentary from humanitarian group Invisible Children for the public in the school gym at 7 p.m. Thursday evening.

Invisible Children works to rehabiliate children forced into slavery as fighters with the Lord's Resistance Army and restore peace to communities affected by years of war in northern Uganda.

A presentation by a Ugandan survivor of Africa's longest-running war will also take place at the free event, which should conclude at about 8:45 p.m.

SHINE, which stands for Spreading Hope in Needy Environments, encompasses Orange County students from El Toro, Trabuco and Capistrano Valley high schools.

The club got its roots at Trabuco High School, where the club was founded two years ago by then-junior Quinn Taber, according to El Toro High SHINE Club President Nik Frey.

Recently, the club held a fundraiser at Chik-fil-A in Foothill Ranch, where SHINE raised enough to feed 24 Kenyan children for a month, Frey said.

The SHINE motto is "students changing the world, one epic event at a time." The club chiefly raises money for relief efforts in central Africa.