In the last five years, over 20,000 children have been abducted in the dead of night from their homes in Northern Uganda by a rebel group calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army. The conflict in Northern Uganda is Africa's longest-running war, exacting a terrible toll by targeting very precisely the children of the region.

My friends Cori Stern, Amy Eldon-Turteltaub, and Lucy Firestone founded a campaign featuring a "nameplate necklace" that could be worn by supporters that bears the name of an individual child abducted in Northern Uganda. A larger group of our friends-myself, Mary Firestone, Megan Johnson, Lindsay Devlin, Kristi Manning - got together to work out the details and really work on bringing awareness to the plight of these kids.

I really wanted to focus on creating something of beauty that could be worn to honor these kids - combining my work as a designer with my passion for human rights and a just world for all.

The nameplates, dipped in platinum or gold, are a way for us to remember to see the children not as an overwhelming tragedy - but as individuals. In wearing the name necklaces, supporters pledge to remember that individual child - to speak their name, tell their story, bring them home."

- Over 1000 children have been provided an education and living expenses through the sale of the necklaces.

- The Name Campaign arranges for free care for formerly abducted children from Northern Uganda in need of medical treatment. One of them, Evaline Apoko - a young girl horribly injured during her time with the LRA - was brought by The Name Campaign to Fort Wayne, Indiana to be treated by volunteer surgeons. After an intensive year of reconstructive surgeries, she has returned home healthy and whole to her family in Uganda.