The mission of the Development Center of the Charity of the Archdiocese in Prague (DC CAP) is to educate poor children in the developing countries in order to open them a way to more prospective future and to a happier childhood. We help children, their families and whole communities to achieve a broader development, to reach self sufficiency and sustainably higher standard of life.

Our goals

• To make elementary, higher and vocational education accessible for poor children in target development areas and to improve the level of instruction at all educational levels.
• To support self-help of poor inhabitants of villages and slams through development projects – providing small loans (micro financing), creating self-help teams, organizing educational programs and increasing qualification.
• To improve health care in target areas and ensure prevention of spread of diseases, mainly HIV/AIDS and malaria
• To strengthen cooperation with local partner organizations in target countries and to help them increase efficiency of their activities.
• To involve general public of the Czech Republic in foreign help and to inform about development issues.