About us

4.1. Vision:   
Community Relief and Development Foundation envisions an empowered and economically secure community whose people utilize sustainable means to continuously enhance the quality of their lives through equal opportunities and good governance.
4.2: Mission Statement:
Community Relief and Development Foundation’s mission is to improve the quality of life for disadvantaged poor community members through capacity building in sustainable livelihoods and increased access to basic social services. CRDF works and assists the needy and neglected people at grass root level to gain access to good governance in the society with due dignity. CRDF therefore, facilitates economic empowerment for poverty eradication.  
4.3: Goal:
To help and develop the distressed, needy, neglected and vulnerable people in rural communities of Western Province of Zambia socially and economically by providing them necessary assistance for sustaining their lives and conditions specially the women and children/youths.
Core Values:
The mission of CRDF is anchored on the following core values;
• Transparency and Accountability
• Sustainability
• Partnership
• Equal Opportunity
Transparency and Accountability to all the target groups/communities, donors and partners in general.
Sustainability of the means and outcomes of the livelihoods of the target group.
Partnership as the basis for engaging the target group and fellow stakeholders.
Equal Opportunity regardless of race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, HIV status, ethnicity and any other form of discrimination CRDF embraces and respects everyone’s beliefs.
CRDF works directly with the grassroots of disadvantaged households and communities and focuses on poverty reduction strategies that embrace sustainability as a key concept in the project cycle. The mode of delivery is through environmental, social and economic sustainability of livelihood systems derived from CRDF’s thematic areas.