A community-led foundation helping families move from incertinty to stability.
CAS Foundation is a Black-led, woman-founded nonprofit created to help African Canadian women, newcomer families, youth, and vulnerable communities overcome barriers, rebuild with dignity, and create stronger futures in Canada.
Our work is practical, compassionate, and culturally grounded.
We help individuals and families navigate life in Canada through settlement support, employment readiness, education guidance, entrepreneurship support, financial literacy, housing referrals, youth support, and trauma-informed community care.
Our goal is to reduce isolation, strengthen stability, and create pathways to belonging and long-term opportunity.
Why CAS exists
We believe every individual and family deserves the opportunity to thrive. CAS exists to provide culturally grounded support, trusted guidance, and practical pathways toward stability, belonging, and long-term opportunity.
What We Do
To empower individuals, families, and communities through culturally grounded support, advocacy, education, and practical pathways to stability, belonging, and opportunity.
What We Believe Is Possible
A Canada where individuals, families, and communities are fully seen, deeply supported, and empowered to thrive, lead, and build stronger futures.
Our Partners
NOMAD COMMITTEE SERVICE
SUDANESE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION
CANADIAN LEARNING ACADEMY
Meet Me
Welcome to CAS Foundation, a space for African Canadians to be seen, heard, and held.
I’ve worn many titles in my life: engineer, entrepreneur, mother, immigrant, and survivor. But the one that feels most true? Builder of beginnings.
I was born in Sudan, and my journey took root in Saudi Arabia, where I spent my childhood in the stillness of closed doors and silenced dreams. My father worked in another city, my mother raised us alone, and I learned early how to navigate loneliness. We moved often, city to city, friend to friend, never long enough to belong.
By sixteen, I was back in Sudan, chasing education like oxygen. I juggled two university degrees while never quite finding a place to call my own. I married young. I chose love. And I walked through a life that taught me the difference between choosing someone and being chosen back. I fought for my freedom, for my daughter, and for my name. I stood alone in court to earn a divorce in a culture that punished women for speaking.
I raised my daughter as a single mother. I built a company from scratch. I turned zero into wealth not from luck but from grit and grit only. I cared for my aging parents while healing from my own wounds. I was the one my entire family turned to when they fell apart, and I helped piece them back together while quietly falling apart myself.
Then war came.
I lost everything I had: my business, my home, my savings, my mother, and my father, all swallowed by conflict and chaos. I came to Canada, not as a victim but as a woman with a suitcase full of pain, purpose, and potential. I started over again. I studied English. I earned advanced diplomas in business marketing. I learned AI and new systems. I took 60 classes to advance my education and sharpen my social and professional skills. I pursued the Canadian Marketing Association (CMA). And I kept applying for jobs that never called back, not because I lacked value, but because the world lacked imagination.
So I dreamed bigger.
I created CAS because I knew there were thousands of women like me, brilliant, displaced, silenced, and overlooked. I built the space I once needed. A place where African Canadian women could be seen, supported, and celebrated. Where we don't have to shrink to survive, we can rise, rebuild, and redefine success on our own terms.
This is more than my story. It’s a blueprint.
And it’s just the beginning.
Help us create stronger, more inclusive communities where individuals and families can thrive.
Whether you’re seeking support, looking to partner, volunteering your time, or helping fund our work, your involvement helps create meaningful change.