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 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 and an organization whose prior objectives is to transform the lives of disadvantaged youths through life skill education,art training and social entrepreneurship skill development.In line with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, uniting with other youths, we address the problem of youth unemployment, poverty among other social vices by encouraging and promoting other disadvantaged youths to add more meaning to their lives by indulging in vocational and entrepreneurship skills for self employment,get descent jobs and live responsible and healthy lifestyles.
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 artists from different artistic backgrounds, mental health,financial,community youth counselor and agriculture technicians who give their all to practically and theoretically train, facilitate and empower disadvantaged youths cause by the Anglophone crisis to rebuild resilience, foster positive attitudes and acquire sustainable livelihoods. We train and empower disadvantaged youths to become agents of positive change to other youths in their communities.
As an arm of our non profit organization,we operate and manage a social enterprise name ‘CADA Arts & Design were we do commercial printing,printing of t-shirts,rubber stamps,banners,signboards,visual arts(painting and sculpture)among others for commercial purposes. We also own a farm 14 kilometers from our workshop were we do organic crop cultivation for commercial purposes and food subsistence. Our profits are solely use to finance our flagship project inline with the mission of our non profit organization,which is to transform the mindsets of disadvantaged youths through life skill education,art training and social entrepreneurship skill development. Our beneficiaries include: school dropouts,internally displaced,orphans,homeless and vulnerable youths.
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 our beneficiaries 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 our 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 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 from Kanthari Foundation Switzerland, in September 2023, we launched a flagship project title ” PEACE OF ART”. Where we offer a 06 months intensive training program for 15 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 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.
