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The CPCA provides the following services to its members in particular and to the community in general:

  To initiate, gather and promote efforts aimed at fostering co-operation among  Canadian Pashtun individuals, groups and organizations across Canada and co-ordinate and unite their efforts towards preservation and promotion of Pashtun Islamic and Cultural Heritage and the Pashto Language

  To support and espouse the rights and legitimate interest of the Pashtun Canadians, immigrants and refugees and act in matters affecting their rights and status in Canada

  To help, attend and serve the Immigration and Settlement needs of the Pashtun New Comers and others in need and assist in efforts aimed at solving their problems and improving their socio-economic and cultural conditions and facilitating their integration into the Canadian society

  To assist Pashtun Canadians, immigrants and refugees in their efforts of family reunification and prosperous resettlement in Canada

  To provide a center or focal point for Pashtun Canadians and immigrants to co-ordinate and channel their collective efforts in promoting their cultural identity and socio-economic well being through collaboration and united action.

  To provide necessary care for Canadian Pashtun elders and handicaps and assist in satisfying their special needs and provide them with congregational facilities for rehabilitation, recreation and deliberation of socio-cultural functions and ceremonies.

  To encourage, co-ordinate and promote the collective efforts of the Canadian Pashtun youths to develop their capabilities and maintain the highest standard of moral well-being and citizenship as embodied in the Pashtun Islamic and cultural heritage of Pashtunwali- the Pashtun code of honor.

  To protect, preserve and promote Canadian Pashtun cultural identity and the Pashto language by propagating of Pashtun cultural values and establishing and maintaining of educational, training and informational facilities such as day care centers, language learning courses, and mass media communication means.

  To establish, maintain and conduct orientation classes, lectures, seminars and courses of learning English as Second Language, Canadian Laws and Canadian Citizenship, and Job Training for the Pashtun elders, seniors, handicaps and newcomers.

  To provide and maintain socio-religious facilities for birth, marriage and burial ceremonies in accordance with the Pashtun Islamic and cultural traditions.

  To cooperate and strengthen bonds of friendship with other Pashtun organizations and VIPs advocating similar objectives or serving the cause of Pashtun culture and language in Canada , North America or elsewhere.

  To gather, prepare, edit, translate into Pashto and publish the basic First Aid materials on the Pashtun history, culture and language, the Canadian history, culture, laws, and citizenship, life and job skills, business initiatives and other direly needed information and knowledge required for socio-economic and cultural development and successful integration into the Canadian society.

  To establish and maintain a well-equipped office for the headquarter of the Association, a spacious congregational and conference hall, a library-cum-information- documentation center, a recreational exhibition place, a day care center, a refugee rehabilitation facility, a mosque, a burial cemetery, a residential Pashtun Kelay (village) and an educational and information center for research and studies of learning job skills, culture, language and other necessary developmental disciplines.

  To actively support the efforts of the people of Pashtunkhwa in establishing a just democratic society where peace, justice, the rule of law and order and the respect for human rights and principals of “Democracy” are upheld.

  To restore, preserve and promote Pashtun Islamic and Cultural values as enshrined in the Pashtunwali  and the Pashto Language among Canadian Pashtuns and thus make a positive contribution to Canada ’s cultural mosaic