December 2016 Annual Report

2016 Annual Report
Top Left: A Christian community in northern
Nigeria receives two-way radios which they
use to warn neighboring villages when they
are under attack by Fulani militants.
Upper Middle Left: When a Christian community
was attacked by Fulani militants,
this man was shot in the leg; ICC helps with
his medical expenses.
Lower Middle Left: Families of the kidnapped
Chibok girls (#BringBackOurGirls)
receive seed and fertilizer from ICC.
Top Right: A Christian community in Mali displaced
by Islamic attacks receives agricultural
seed from ICC to help with this year’s crop.
Upper Middle Right: A church community in
Pakistan carries in new carpeting supplied
by ICC after a man broke in and set fire to
their building.
Lower Middle Right: A group of Christians
in Nigeria gathers to receive agricultural
aid from ICC after Boko Haram attacked
their community.
Lower Left: Victims of a bombing attack on
a Christian community in India receive food
aid from ICC.
Lower Right: A Christian family in Kenya is
given food and supplies by ICC after their
father was killed by Al-Shabaab.
Rebuilding-Restoring Communities
We Stay Behind After the Headlines Pass
ICC supports entire persecuted communities by
rebuilding after attacks. We also seek to prevent
attacks. In Nigeria, for example, ICC recognized
that Islamic militants were easily attacking one village
after another because there was no efficient
method for villagers to warn each other of current
attack. So, ICC provided radios and training so villages
can alert each other when attackers come.
When targeting Christian communities, attackers
seek to devastate Christians in the long run. In
farming villages, attackers will eliminate the villagers’
crops to drive them off the land. ICC frequently
delivers immediate food assistance coupled with
long-term community rebuilding assistance like
seed and fertilizer to help them stay in their villages.
As one African villager noted, “By ourselves we
couldn’t make it…We needed ICC’s help.”
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