ICON Enterprise Foundation (iCON)

The iCON Enterprise Foundation (iCON) is a Ugandan non-profit organization that aims to address gender-based barriers to children’s education by igniting children’s educational potential; women’s leadership and economic empowerment; and family effectiveness and stability. We advocate for parental responsibility and strengthen family resilience and family leadership capacity to creatively address the key barriers to children’s education, women’s empowerment and family stability such as negative social-cultural norms, poverty, ill health, violence, exploitation, exclusion, inequality and inequity. iCON works with children, women and parents who are disproportionately vulnerable and disadvantaged by intractable social, economic, cultural, health and natural challenges. We promote a male engagement strategy in our work. Our Vision We envision “Prosperous and thriving families transforming their communities”. Our Mission Our mission is to “Facilitate children, women’s and parents’ entrepreneurial leadership growth for children’s sustained access to relevant, affordable, quality education in Uganda.” Our Goal Our goal is to contribute to children’s retention and excellence in school through capacity building investments in children’s, women’s and parent’s leadership at family level Uganda.