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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 […]
Awjoo – No Blacks Allowed I have been much blessed to have traveled the world filled with adventure and risk, and the recent trip to Madagascar is no exception. The island is in a grip of misfortune and hunger brought about by both drought and typhoons. Whereas it would take me less than 6 hours […]
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 […]
A Toilet With Tiles I was recently in remote Lushoto, Tanzania, inspecting a CAI donor-funded school under construction and debating on whether to install maintenance-free tiles in the bathrooms. Since I am now traveling to remote Madagascar and unsure if I’ll be able to write and publish anything from there, I re-publish the following Blog […]
