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.

Community Agency for Rural Development (CAD) is one of five Myanmar NGOs (Not-for-profit non-governmental organizations) established by few individual persons in Myanmar during 2000-2004 under the Burmese Military rule (State Law and Order Restoration Council). CAD was registered to Union Ministry of Home Affairs of the Union of Republic of Myanmar. CAD registration/License number is 1/Local/1850. Our EuropeAid ID is (MM-2009-CWC-2801955510, COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT).

The founder of CAD is a devoted Catholic Christian. CAD was a registered Myanmar NGO. Established in 2004, the charity has implemented a wide range of successful programs in WASH, agriculture development, food security and livelihoods, education, environment, health services, construction and rehabilitation of public infrastructures, research, capacity building. CAD has been implementing projects in Chin State, Sagaing and Mandalay Regions.  Since April 2021, CAD has been supporting the displaced people of the targeted areas in their basic needs such as food, shelter, water and sanitation, medicines, clothes and mobile children education in their camps. Thanks to its national level registration certificate, CAD can access all the targeted areas.