Creating Opportunities | Making the Impossible, Possible!
Aghaa Thokam-thok As Kisukaali heads to the mosque for jumaa salaat, pregnant skies above threaten to open up any minute. About time, he reckons, the long rains for this city should have begun over a month ago; bountiful showers will cool him and the city down, insha’Allah. The Khoja masjid is packed, waiting for the […]
Ramadhan / Fitra Update Close to 20,000 families in 30 varied countries received supplemental nutritious iftaar food aid this year. 700 individual in 4 countries received Zakat el Fitr. All made possible by generous CAI donors. Eid Gifts For Worldwide Orphans Eid is a happy day, especially for children. About 820 CAI orphans in Afghanistan, […]
A Kabul School Bombing, Deja-vu I’m seated at my dining table/desk, writing away and listening to a beautiful rendition of dua – e – ifteteh by Abather Al Halawaji when Dr. Assef, the CAI Afghanistan Medical Director now living in Islamabad for his and his family’s safety, texts a message stating a school in Dashte […]
Zakat el Fitr CAI will be distributing your Zakat el Fitr to the destitute in Afghanistan, India, Tanzania, and Yemen this year. The recommended amount per person is US$12. We urge you to please pledge or donate no later than April 28 as all payments/pledges after this date may not be distributed on Eid day but in […]
De Mullah! De Moon! De Schools! It’s an oppressively stifling morning here in Dar es Salaam. I’m not sure what happened to the prevailing winds; they’ve stopped blowing now – climate change effects, perhaps? Usually, a stiff cooling breeze from the Indian Ocean less than half a mile away circulates on the 10th floor of […]
Ramadhan Food Aid – Objective Met Alhamd’Allah, CAI, for the 24th consecutive year, was able to secure the total funds from generous donors for the Ramadhan food aid to about 20,000 poor families in 30 countries. All these families are now with food baskets worth US$40 each to supplement their iftaar meals. The countries covered […]
Jollibee, Durians And Multiple Wives I am on my way to the Philippines to inspect a work in progress CAI school project that got infected by the doodoo. Now that the doors to the country are open, Sohail will join me from NY and we’ll get the project restarted, insha’Allah. We then plan to visit […]
Mobilizing For Ramadhan The holy month of Ramadhan is about one week away and CAI has begun iftaar distribution to feed the hungry all over the world once more. We are targeting the most vulnerable areas that are often in remote and violence-prone areas of the world. For this exercise to be successful and cost-effective, […]
A Birthday So, it’s my birthday, again. These damned events seem to hit the pedal to the metal, accelerating unrestrained, as I approach the day when I will fall permanently asleep. But it is not an ordinary day, this year, however. I turn 65, you see. Time to think about Medicare and social security and […]
Mobilizing For Ramadhan The holy month of Ramadhan is about 5 weeks away and CAI has begun mobilizing to feed the hungry all over the world once more. We are targeting the most vulnerable areas that are often in remote and violence-prone areas of the world. For this exercise to be successful and cost-effective, CAI […]
