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Manakara We have a grand opening of Al Mahdi School in Manakara, Madagascar on Valentine’s day, a proud BCT / CAI undertaking. A wonderful day for about 300 girls who will have an opportunity to quality education for the first time in their lives. Manakara is a poor town south of the island, and difficult […]
2023 Ramadhan Iftaar Appeal Infant Milk For Syria Sohail and I have just concluded a brief but grueling and perilous trip into Syria – Zainabiya, Latakia, and Hasya’a. While the rebuilding of severely damaged homes is beyond the scope of CAI due to the scale of destruction, financial, legal and logistical challenges, there are […]
2023 Ramadhan Iftaar Appeal The holy month of Ramadhan is not too far away and CAI must mobilize to distribute food aid to the poor and destitute across the world. Rice, wheat, sugar, flour, and cooking oil worth US$50 will go to each eligible household to supplement their iftaar. Please help us feed a hungry […]
Mullah Mjanja I had known Mjanja (an alias, naturally) almost fifty years ago, from my time growing up in Tanga in the seventies. Mjanja means shrewd in Kiswahili. This is a title our friends gave him because he used to be cunning with his teachers, friends, and foes, getting away with daring pranks with the […]
2023 Ramadhan Iftaar Appeal The holy month of Ramadhan is not too far away and CAI must mobilize to distribute food aid to the poor and destitute across the world. Rice, wheat, sugar, flour, and cooking oil worth US$50 will go to each eligible household to supplement their iftaar. Please help us feed a hungry […]
The blessed month of Rajab is here. There is a deluge of Facebook posts, WhatsApp forwards, and emails extolling me to become more pious and Allah-conscious this month. Our respected and revered aalims, too, are all fired up – recite this and that dua they extoll in sermons, recite ziyaarats, pray these many sets of […]
2023 Ramadhan Iftaar Appeal The holy month of Ramadhan is not too far away and CAI must mobilize to distribute food aid to the poor and destitute across the world. Rice, wheat, sugar, flour, and cooking oil worth US$50 will go to each eligible household to supplement their iftaar. Please help us feed a hungry […]
Kisukaali, I want to die. These words are from Mullah Mchungu as I sit alongside his bed. I feel safe, as the menacing walking stick that he sometimes brandishes is nowhere in sight. He is ailing again. At just over eighty years old, I’d expect his human engine to have ups and downs, and aches […]
Lifesaver Blankets Distribution – Syria 3,200 blankets were distributed to Syria’s internally displaced refugees in Hessya, Lattkia and Sayyeda Zainab Districts of Shaam. Sharing photos. Housing Appeal – Sindh, Pakistan CAI is appealing for help to build 200 homes for the devastating victims of the Sindh floods. Each one-bedroom home, with a built-in bathroom and […]
Slipping And Sliding Working and traveling for CAI takes me to numerous hot spots in this world and although most of them are dicey, uncomfortable, and sometimes outright dangerous, a recent trip to commission a completely renovated CAI donor-funded school in a remote village in Tanzania is one that I will cherish – for the […]
