South-West: Women Skills Development and Business Class
The South-West ICON, in response to the UN-Empower Women champion for change call-for-project, organized a three weeks intense intervention for selected women in the community…
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South-West: Skills Acquisition- Discovering New Fem-Entrepreneurs
Access to training on fashion and design for rural women, who can barely afford three-square meals for their families, is 95% impossible due to the alarmingly expensive rate charged by the fashion industry to train or accept interns…
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South-South: Books and Food Program For South-South Children
There are many children in the world but not so many childhoods. Some children across the world celebrate Children’s day with their families and loved ones, but not all experiences the same opportunity….
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South-West: ICON at the Development Dialogue Conference
This year, ICON joined other social change-makers to explore solutions to pressing global issues, and celebrate the power of social innovation to solve pressing problems…
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South-South: International Women’s Day Market Mobilization
“The women are always busy—from market to family chores—from morning to night. If they won’t come to us, we will go to them. Today is all about them and they need to know how important this campaign is, to them,...
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South-West Writing Workshop: Power of a Pen
Stories become powerful when expressed in well-written languages, and at ICON, writing workshops help identify and develop voices that requires urgent intervention……
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Author’s Talk 2016: Social Media for Literary Transformation
Gone are the days when only published authors were read across the world, and in most cases, not all published writers received the same amount of readership. With the emergence of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter,...
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International Day of the Girl Child: The Power of One Book, One Girl
St Annes Girls School, located in Ibadan, the South-West region of Nigeria— and the largest city in West Africa, started in 1929 with an increasingly yearly enrollment of girls from diverse backgrounds, especially local communities across the city….
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Author’s Talk 2015: Writing, through the Perspective of an Unpublished Writer
There is an estimate of 1.1 billion unpublished writers across the world, and more than a million unheard stories….
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