Guided by the aspirations of local communities, CAD pursues its mission with both excellence and compassion always mindful to respect those CAD serves, and deliver integrated and holistic programs that maximise impact. CAD builds resilience and skills at individual, household, community, and respective governmental institutions levels –e.g. Ministry of Education, Ministry of Gender, etc. The children, youth, young adult, adults and elderly are provided with the tools and knowledge to protect themselves, their peers, siblings, friends and neighbours, fostering an improved longer-term environment in the community as they mature and become caregivers themselves in socio economic and governance sectors. CAD understands that achieving sustainable community development requires systemic change in many traditional behaviours and local community policies and laws, as well as a long-term investment in individuals, families and community-based organizations. Simultaneously CAD recognizes that these change agents that are being capacitated have immediate needs that must be met in order to produce healthy outcomes. On the way to achieving long-term, sustainable objectives, CAD commits human, programmatic, in –kind and financial resources right from the start and continues to work alongside the target populations throughout the cooperative engagement. CAD seeks their commitment in return; progress requires an equal understanding and application of the partnership during the engagement and sustained hard work from both CAD, and men, women, boys and girls throughout the process.