"The mission of CDA is to "improve the status of youth particularly young women enabling them to equally and actively participate in planning, management, decision / policy making and execution of their plans without any biases of gender, religion, status, or language for the creation of a healthy, just, peaceful, and democratic society"

Chanan Development Association (CDA) to conduct first ever National Youth PEACE festival in July 2010. -----------------------------------------------


5th National ToT of Y-PEER going to be held in July last week 2010. -----------------------------------------------


CDA's Executive Director became the "Youth Ambassador" of World Population Foundation (WPF)'s
"Safe Motherhood Campaign"
(join the cause, sign the pledge) -----------------------------------------------


Chanan Development Association (CDA) in collaboration with WPF Pakistan is going to organize "Media Sensitization Workshop" on July 6, 2010 . -----------------------------------------------


CDA's Executive Director and Media Director to attend "5th World Youth Congress, Turkey" starting August 2010. -----------------------------------------------


Chanan Development Association (CDA) organized "Interfaith Exposure Visit" as part of interfaith harmony project. -----------------------------------------------


Chanan Development Association (CDA) has a new brand now . -----------------------------------------------


CDA's Executive Director and Media director to attend the "International Aids Conference" going to be held in Vienna, Austria (13 to 23 July 2010) -----------------------------------------------


"The pilot phase of National Youth-PEACE Campaign is going to be concluded as CDA is going to organize the first ever National Youth-PEACE Festival in July 2010 at Lahore".

• Harmony Education and Learning for Peace (HELP)


Harmony Education for Learning and Peace (HELP) is a program for Socio-Religious Interfaith Harmony. It aims to provide a platform to people belonging to different faiths / casts and communities to get together and exchange their opinion regarding different issues. It also provides them opportunity to explore each others values, religions, cultures and traditions for the creation of the culture of acceptability, harmony and respect. This program also focuses on reducing fundamentalism and extremism amongst the society.


Following projects/activities are going on (carried out) by CDA

• A Cricket Tournament for PEACE CDA annually organizes a Cricket Tournament for PEACE with the aim to promote peace and harmony through sports. People belonging to different faith, casts, cultures and ethnicities take part in the cricket tournament. In past years, the tournament was supported by Action-Aid Pakistan, National Commission for Justice and PEACE and Youth Parliament of Pakistan.

• International PEACE Day Campaign Every year CDA celebrate the International Day of PEACE organizing events in the communities engaging people belonging to different faiths, casts and ethnicities. Usually CDA organizes the dialogues between the people belonging to different faiths while the activities of the campaign also includes exposure visit to other’s religion, media campaigning and candle lightening for PEACE.










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