Creating Opportunities | Making the Impossible, Possible!
My Bloody Gallbladder Stones For uninteresting reasons, I end up in the emergency room of Fatimiyah Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. I must have a very large stone in my gallbladder removed. Kind of chap-chap. The hospital is in Soldier Bazaar, located in a lower-middle-class neighborhood of this sprawling city. The emergency room is busy, with […]
Afghans Are Hungry The hunger situation in Afghanistan is a disaster of epic promotions. The local currency, the Af hit 130 to the US$ as I write this appeal; it was 77 the day the Taliban took over. This means a person who is lucky to be employed earning 10,000 Afs or US$130 three months […]
Aal Is Vel It is in an aircraft 28,000 feet in the air that I find out a COVID-19 test is required to be allowed back to Mumbai from Kolkata tomorrow. The enlightened medical experts in the state of Maharashtra deem it necessary for ‘outsiders’ within India to have a piece of paper stating I […]
School / Safe Home For Syrian Orphans – An Update The CAI sponsored facility to care for 50 deprived Syrians languishing as refugees in Lebanon is taking shape. Sharing a few photos. Food Aid Distribution – Afghanistan This critical lifesaver project has distributed one-month supply of food to the hungry in the following Provinces of […]
When the first reports of Afghan families selling or marrying their adolescent daughters for food or debt settlement flashed up on my TV, I was somewhat skeptical. Widely followed mainstream media outlets Inc., especially western, have in the past covered such headlines for sensationalism, exaggeration, and profit, especially when it is out of poor and […]
Donate A Blanket – Save A Life Winters in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kargil (India), and Yemen are usually brutal and can kill the most vulnerable, the young and old. CAI is mobilizing to distribute a total of 14,000 blankets in these four countries. Let us help ward off the bitter cold by sponsoring a warm blanket […]
Who Cares It’s Deepawali, or Diwali, the festival of lights for almost 1.5 billion people of the world population, almost 15% of us. I remember it as a festive period growing up in Tanzania where we joined our Hindu friends in lighting up firecrackers and eating delicious sweetmeats full of ghee and sugar. Our neighbors […]
1st CAI Sponsored Hydrophiles & Spina Bifida Camp It was a painful day for 25 infants from poor families who received live-saving surgery to treat hydrophiles & spina bifida, sponsored by CAI donors. This easily preventable ailment affects deprived families with poor nutrition and is devastating for newborn babies. This life-saving procedure costs only US$200 […]
Ulfat – Zanzibar I meet Ulfat some three years ago, in her grandmother’s pitiful house somewhere in Zanzibar. It has taken me a ten-minute walk in waterlogged muddy lanes to reach her house. My shoes are soggy with muddy water, and they make a rude sound as I walk. Good thing I am wearing shorts, […]
CAI Donor Schools Update CAI has constructed and renovated 65 schools in deprived communities worldwide, providing poor children an opportunity at quality education – and the process continues. The latest is a massive school/orphanage project in Zanzibar for 500 children, including a home for 50 orphaned girls. Imagine, 65 schools educating an average of 500 […]
