Creating Opportunities | Making the Impossible, Possible!
A Jungle School After the depressing trip to Pakistan where Sohail and I oversee the logistics of administering the purchase and distribution of 10,000 blankets and 7,000 tents to the victims of the devastating floods in September and October, we head to Manila, Philippines. Manila is a replica of any metropolis in Southeast Asia. Crowded […]
Sultan Lindogan Primary School Opening – Philippines A very happy and exciting day for about 120 schoolchildren in the remote village of Munai, Philippines. CAI-sponsored Sultan Lindongan Primary School was officially inaugurated by Trustees Sohail Abdullah and Yusufali in November 2022. This school will serve as a model educational experience for these poor children, especially […]
It seems the Pakistani government is finally convinced I am harmless since they issue me a one-year multiple-entry visa for the first time and I find myself at Karachi airport. The arrival hall is jampacked and it’ll take me at least an hour or more to clear immigration but a sympathetic officer pulls me aside […]
Pakistan Flood – An SOS I have just completed an extensive visit to Sindh, Pakistan that has been devastated by the recent floods. It was a surreal experience, one I have not witnessed in the 25 years with CAI. The attached photos will speak of the devastation in place. A 100 mile area, once fertile […]
There is very little joy in Amna Naqvi’s (alias) tender life of eight years so far. All she knows as the daughter of a peasant farmer is an arduous and dreary existence; a daily routine of early mornings, before sunup, drawing water from the backyard well, sweeping dirt floors, washing clothes, and shaping stinking, still […]
Life Saver Blankets The recent natural disasters in Afghanistan and Pakistan have left the poorest vulnerable reeling with very bleak winter months approaching. CAI focuses on providing those who have lost their homes from flooding with blankets to survive the severe cold, especially in Afghanistan. The qualifying victims of the floods in Pakistan will be […]
My Anguish Realized, RIP – Farishta It’s a pleasant spring evening here in Dar es Salaam and I’m enjoying the gentle breeze blowing from the Indian Ocean half a mile away to my 10th-floor apartment. I’m typing away furiously on my laptop, trying to pen ideas in my head for my new novel before I […]
Life Saver Blankets The recent natural disasters in Afghanistan and Pakistan have left the poorest vulnerable reeling with very bleak winter months approaching. CAI focuses on providing those who have lost their homes from flooding with blankets to survive the severe cold, especially in Afghanistan. The qualifying victims of the floods in Pakistan will be […]
The Queen Is Dead! Queen Elizabeth II died peacefully on September 8, 2022; I’ve heard and read of very little else since then. Bapre. You’d think the world was about to end. Okay, so, almost all of us know who she was, as she reigned over more than a billion people of the Commonwealth at […]
Focus On Pakistan Aid from Comfort Aid International (USA) donors was on the ground within a week of the catastrophe that engulfed Pakistan last week. Emergency potable water, food, and shelter have/are being distributed to the survivors of the floods. The focus now shifts to blankets and shelter. The homeless victims will need a tent […]
