Welcome to CADA
Collective Arts Development Association
Igniting Transformative Change from within.
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Our Mission
To transform the mindsets of disadavantaged youths through life skill education,art training and social entrepreneurship skill development.
Our Vision
To rebuild resilient and enhance sustainable livelihoods for disadvantaged youths through arts and social entrepreneurship skill development.
Our Partners
Collective Arts Development Association(CADA)
Collective Arts Development Association(CADA), is a development and humanitarian non- governmental not for profit organization.CADA’s head office is located at Nkwen,Bamenda III sub-division in the Northwest region of Cameroon.CADA was recognized as an Association in 2016 per the 1990 law of association under authorization number 55/E.29./1111/VOL.8/ALPAS
Other objectives
- To identify and promote artistic works among boys and girls for their economic empowerment and poverty alleviation
- -To build the capacities of boys and girls in both conventional and domestic artistic works for them to increase their employment chances.
- To identify and encourage the upgrade of domestic artistic equipments to meet modern and expected standards to facilitate and maximize efficiency
Ready to Change Lives? Become a Volunteer With Us!
You can volunteer as a facilitator, participant, help spread the news about transforming mindsets and rebuilding resilience among disadvantaged youths through life skill education, art training and social entrepreneurship skill development.
Volunteer Requirements
Must be above 21 years of age
Good Skills in English Language
Discipline and respectful
Time conscious
Who we are
We are a team of professional and experienced artists from different artistic backgrounds, mental health,financial,community youth development and agriculture experts who give their all to practically and theoretically train and empower disadvantaged youths cause by the Anglophone crisis to rebuild resilience, foster positive attitudes and acquire sustainable livelihoods.
What we do
We manage and operate an art school where we help severely disadvantaged youths cause by the Anglophone crisis and its consequences.Through an immersive, hands-on,and intensive training program participants receives techniques, tools, methods and skills they need for effective social inclusion,rebuild resilient,become self employed, start up a small social venture or to be ready for the job market to enable them acquire sustainable livelihoods and foster positive attitudes.
What we'v done
In 2016, following the negative effects of the Anglophone crisis on the youthful population in Bamenda Town and surrounding villages in the Northwest region of Cameroon, from a 1meter square box which served as my art workshop and office space and with very limited financial and material resources,Collective Arts Development Association(CADA), between 2016-2022, trained 31 disadvantaged youths through arts and social entrepreneurship skill development from 5 different crisis affected communities in Bamenda the Northwest region of Cameroon. Between January-April 2022, through a $1000USD grant funding from the Pollination Project,we carried out a pilot project title” Visual Arts Activism for Social Change” with 16 disadvantaged youths,among them school dropouts,drug addicts,internally displaced and vulnerable from Manda and Menteh Communities in Nkwen,Bamenda. In 2023, through a grant of $26000USD from the Kanthari Foundation Switzerland, we rented a spacious apartment which presently serve as an art school for training participants, an art workshop,a space to organize mental health education sessions, psycho social support and counseling and a rehabilitative ground for participants. In September 2023, we launched a flagship project” PEACE OF ART”. Where we offer a nine month intensive training program for fifteen disadvantaged youths using life skill education,art and social entrepreneurship skill development as a means of social transformation and enhancement of their livelihoods.The training involves six months of theoretical and practical weekly training sessions, an internship,and three months of mentorship program.
At the same time we device strategies and methods to solve other issues like:homelessness, food scarcity,waste pollution,gender balance among others.
Meet the 2024 Batch of Participants
The 2024 batch counts 15 disadvantaged youths from seven crisis affected communities in the Northwest region of Cameroon.
