What we do
Our programs
ICONS works across three priority areas, meeting urgent needs today while building the conditions for safety and peace tomorrow.
Program one
Emergency relief
When crisis hits, families need help fast. ICONS supports food assistance, clothing, shelter materials, and basic aid, and helps coordinate urgent care and psychosocial referrals for people affected by violence and displacement.
Our relief work focuses on communities whose needs are immediate and severe, and whose suffering has too often gone unseen.
Program two
Protection and advocacy
We raise the voices of people facing violence and persecution through awareness campaigns, documentation support, public education, and policy engagement, and we carry their story into international conversations that shape the response.
Protection means standing with civilians and survivors, and holding those responsible to account.
Advocacy in action
Taking Nigeria's crisis to Capitol Hill
In April 2026, ICON joined the Endowment for Middle East Truth for a Capitol Hill forum on terrorism and religious violence, bringing the reality of Nigeria’s crisis directly to policymakers in Washington.
Stand with us
Turn concern into coordinated action
Every gift strengthens relief, advocacy, and recovery for communities across Nigeria and the Sahel.
Program three
Peacebuilding and resilience
Lasting safety is built, not declared. ICONS supports dialogue platforms, youth engagement, women-led recovery, interfaith cooperation, and local partnerships that reduce fragility and strengthen peace.
We invest in the relationships and livelihoods that help communities recover and stay resilient after crisis.
Help communities recover and rebuild
Your support sustains long-term humanitarian work, advocacy, and peacebuilding across the region.