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Community Agency for Rural Development (CAD) was founded as a Catholic faith-oriented Myanmar NGO on May 4, 2004, by Joseph Kung Za Hmung @ Win Hlaing Oo. The real history of CAD’s inception was motivated by the dead of two sisters of Joseph Win Hlaing Oo @ Kung Za Hmung in Hnaring village of Thang Tlang Township, Chin state, by the remoteness and marginalized poorest region in Myanmar in 1991. Due to lack of medical doctors with medicines scarcity and due to lack of road infrastructure in Hnaring area (Lautu/Lutuv areas), Thang Tlang Township of Chin State, the local people were confined and were dependent on quacks for their sickness. Therefore with curable illness, his two sisters were sadly dead in Hnaring village. By their death, he decided to save the lives of thousands of his local people by improving transport infrastructures for people’s faster and easier movement, by developing the healthcare skills of the local people, by creating larger and faster access to education and modern changing business opportunities.

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Our Vision

CAD is committed to holistic development and out of poverty for rural community, with its utmost capacity using modern technology.

Our Mission

CAD works in multi-sectorial approach, and community partnership for ensuring sustainable socioeconomic development of rural community.

Our Catholic Values

As CAD is a Catholic faith based non-governmental organization, we would like to highlight what we do mean by Catholic faith based NGO in Myanmar as follows.

What We Do

CAD is committed to work for people in regions/communities which are neglected and undeveloped.

Women Empowerment and Development

Agape Women Network (AWN) is initiated by interested women for their self-development under social mobilization of Joseph Kung Za Hmung @ Win Hlaing Oo, founding director of CAD (Community Agency for Rural Development) in 2007. Today, AWN in villages is occurring inroads under the well understanding of women on their developments and empowerments for their environment.

Educational Infrastructure Development

Many schools in CAD project areas are very decaying and collapsing at all. However, students have no choice than acquiring education with their teachers in such bad buildings (See the below primary school building). Therefore CAD is committed in helping students own safe and sound infrastructure for their learning. Villages in remote Myanmar have state primary schools (Grade 1-5) but those who finished Grade-5, must attend middle school (Grade 6-9) in other villages.

Community Sanitation

It is very logic for local people to say that they have no sanitary practices because there is no water even for their drink and cook. Therefore no sooner we had improved community drinking water system; we help local people practice sanitary management. We received funding from British Embassy for this program in 2009.

Non-Formal Education

Chin state is located in the north-western part of Myanmar, bordering with India and Bangladesh, with 10 highland townships. About 75% of the Chin land is hilly and mountainous, having an average altitude of 4,000 ft. Chin State consists of high mountains and deep valleys and is one of the poorest and most isolated states in Myanmar.

Community Drinking Water Supply

In our Chin state, there are no tube-wells nor artesian-wells nor any other wells for supplying water for washing or drinking. Therefore, all villagers find difficulty for drinking water. All throughout the Chin state, the Chins use the ancient and primitive method of bringing the water supply over long distances by means of bamboo-pipes.

Revolving Anti-venom Bank System

Our system is community based revolving management. CAD bought 10 numbers of good quality vaccines and set up cooling storage system in villages. The bank is managed by village chosen committee. Those who are bitten by snake, can use the vaccines without any discrimination in race, religion. complexion and gender.

Solar Energy in Rural Education

CAD believes that solar lighting is playing a vital role for children’s education in remote areas of Myanmar where national grid is not yet arrived. Therefore solar lighting project is one of our rural development programs which will surely uplift the students’ education and will surely reduce harms in communities.

CAD Responses to Covid-19 Pandemic in Chin State

The worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) spreading from Wuhan, China was confirmed to have reached Myanmar on 23 March 2020. The first confirmed case is a Myanmar national from Tedim Township, Chin state who returned from the US.

Agriculture Revolution

Chin State is situated in the western part of Myanmar, bordering with Sagaing Region in the east, India in the west, Kachin State in the north and Rakhine State in the south. Chin State is the second smallest of all States/Regions and with a population of more than 470,000 people, ranked the second least populated States/Region. Of total, urban population constitutes 21 percent only.

Women Vocational Skill Training Program

CAD had set up a Women Vocational Training Center in Hnaring village in 2016. In this center, CAD had opened a basic tailoring training program which lasted 3 months per course and (10) girls per course without any charges. In (2) years, there are 72 numbers of girls attended this course.

Community Health Care System

In rural and hard-to-reach areas, community members’ heavy reliance on traditional and informal health practitioners can lead to delayed attendance at health centres, and people not receiving the health care they need at the right time.

Maternal Health Care and Nutrition

Despite some improvements in the last decade[1] children in Chin State are the most malnourished in Myanmar, with 41% of children stunted indicating chronic undernutrition[2]. 9% of women are thin (BMI less than 18.5 kg/m2) and 12% of children are born with a low weight indicating malnutrition starts before birth.

Where we do

CAD does not help only Catholic Christians but it helps all kinds of people in its project areas without any discrimination in race, in belief, in religion and in sex.

Hakha Township

Matupi Township

Thantlang Township

Ye Oo Township

Natogyi Township

Gangaw Township

Htilin Township

Updated News

CAD Report: The Chin State Overview of Food Security and Living Conditions in 2024

November 17, 2024

Chin State is one of the states with the highest number of mortality rates in infants, under-5, and mothers, and with the highest chronic undernutrition status in Myanmar. According to the Integrated Household Living Conditions Assessment in Myanmar 2009-2010 of UNDP, Chin State has the highest poverty proportion in Myanmar since 73% of its population […]

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CAD Directorship Handover Announcement to Mr. Anthony Eng Ngai Thang

October 1, 2024

CAD Announcement (Office Order 02/2024) Dear Donors and Partners, Greetings from CAD Head-Office, Yangon. As you should have known that the Myanmar government has appointed the CAD Director, Mr. Joseph Win Hlaing Oo (below picture) as the member of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) on October 7, 2024 as the Christian Representative. His […]

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Call for Applications of Project Evaluation Consultant

December 7, 2023

CAD is calling for application of project evaluation consultant to conduct an independent final evaluation of the CAD Project known as “Improving Education Access for Children in Mi-E (Me-Aye) area, Hakha Township, Chin state, funded by Myanmar Education Consortium – MEC. CAD- Call for Applications of Project Evaluation Consultant

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CAD Wins Expression of Interest from Access to Health Fund

July 12, 2022

We are very happy to say that we have won the initial step of funding from Access to Health Fund for public health. We are excited to step up the final stage of submitting our full proposal to AHF very soon.

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