Welcome to CADA
Collective Arts Development Association
Igniting Transformative Change from within.
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Our Values
We seek to use arts and social entrepreneurship as a catalyst for change and community 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. In line with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, uniting with disadvantaged and other community youths, we address the problem of youth unemployment, poverty and hunger through training and capacity building workshops in the vocational,entrepreneurial and agricultural spheres. As concerns our natural environment, collectively with our beneficiaries,we believe it is our responsibility to use various artistic mediums to contribute to solving global issues as food insecurity,climate change,waste pollution and conservation and preservation of biodiversity.
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
Our team is made up of artists from different artistic backgrounds, social entrepreneurs, agriculture and mental health experts who give their all to practically and theoretically train, facilitate and empower disadvantaged youths to rebuild resilient and become agents of positive change for other youths and for 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,painting,sculpture and craft. Alongside, we own a farm 14 kilometers from our workshop were through a learning by doing approach,we train youths to cultivate organic crops such as maize,beans and vegetables.
Our profits are use to finance our flagship project.
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.It is an obligation for us to train our beneficiaries to acquire creative and innovative skills in other to solve pressing global issues like food insecurity, waste pollution,climate change and environmental degradation.
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 September 2023, with grants from Kanthari foundation Switzerland,we launched a flagship project title ” PEACE OF ART”, that offered 06 months of intensive training for 15 disadvantaged youths in visual arts, graphic arts,craft and social entrepreneurship skill development as a means of social transformation and enhancement of their livelihoods.In February 2025,we launched a 09 months flagship program were we offer training to 15 disadvantaged youths cause by the Anglophone crisis in the Northwest region of Cameroon.
