About ICY – ICY

About ICY Leadership

Discover our story, mission, and the values that drive our commitment to empowering African youth through faith-based leadership development.

2004

Started in Kibera, Nairobi

20

Number of young people we started with

ICY Africa is a network of youth organizations and individuals who are all committed to seeing young people in Africa grow in integrity based on faith, leadership, and with practical skills in entrepreneurship and community engagement, based on the United Nations Sustainable Development goals.

The movement grew out of using our proven leadership development programme, which has evolved as we engage with young people in their locations and develop contextual training for them.

We are now working in partnership with different organisations across most of the Southern States of Africa, East Africa and are seeing a growing work in West Africa and North Africa.

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Years of collaborations and Partnerships

Young people are being encouraged to confront structures that promote inequality and poverty through community service. To build teams to work together and to take a lead with their friends, passing on the training they have received.

We have seen that transformed lives do bring about transformed communities, through faith, justice, dialogue, advocacy and innovation.

Since 2009 ICY has worked in partnership collaboratively with various high schools, colleges, universities, groups, Churches, organisations, local & national governments to complement their own training and mentoring programs. Participants who complete the programme, graduate with a Diploma in Missional Leadership.

Our Foundation

Vision

Spread the Gospel and empower youth to lead community transformational change.

Mission

Mobilize and equip Gospel Advancing Leaders to spread the Gospel and address Africa’s critical challenges holistically

Core Values

Focus on equality, Spiritual growth, Being a movement not an organization, collaboration through open doors.

Our Values

Equality

Men and women, old and young, leaders and disciples, rich and poor – relational accountability not hierarchical.

Galatians 3:28

Spiritual growth

Mission to establish God’s Kingdom rule as foundational to everything.

Col 2:6-7, 2 Tim 2:2, Matt 28: 19 -20

Being a movement not an organization

To serve and not control the pioneers who are free to develop initiatives.

Acts 1:8