CSAAE is dedicated to harnessing the potential of young people from financially vulnerable families and providing the kinds of tools and trainings that endow them with the means to sustain themselves, create opportunities that help others sustain themselves and embrace their roles as stakeholders in a better Africa. Its mission is to help these youths build the kind of capacities, competencies and character that allow them to enhance the greater good for Africa. CSAAE has four programs which though distinct in their areas of focus, share the common goal of creating positive social, economic and political change one youth at a time.