Creating Opportunities | Making the Impossible, Possible!
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 […]
Encouraging News From Afghanistan The US Treasury Department has issued a general license for US based NGOs to continue operation in Afghanistan, offering humanitarian assistance to the poor and marginalized. Alhamd’Allah. CAI has resumed complete operations as of October 2. This includes the CPES school, the SGH and ZBH safehouses for 150 orphans, the 6 […]
Have Sheesha, Will Smoke Emirates flight EK 726 from Dar es Salaam to Dubai is almost full. The crew (most of them) look like human beings now, unlike recently, when they donned the awful-looking COVID protective gear as if some unconvincing aliens from another world. The flight takes off and lands on time with Emirates […]
Housing Kabul The housing for homeless widows in Kabul was abruptly stopped when the legal administration of Afghanistan changed. Out of the current batch of 55 homes, 40 have been completed and handed over, the balance homes are in various stages of construction. Sharing a few photos. Yemen Vaccines Update The vaccination of 14,000 vulnerable […]
Yes, I Am Mad The die is cast. The impossible has happened. My nightmare is real. I have navigated through some pretty turbulent airs in my life and been through some tough situations. Some life-threatening as well. This event is unique, however, and no matter where I turn and what rationale I try to use […]
These Poor Children Need Help To Eat Madagascar is a poor island now suffering even more due to COVID-19 effects and a serious drought. We need help to feed 1,000 dirt-poor children in 18 centers that cater for their education. A meal costs US$0.25. Imagine! Let’s please help feed them for a year, 5 times […]
Mshenzi – Uncivilized Mjeenga – Illiterate I’ve just finished my early morning exercise routine and am looking forward to a robust cup of Tanzanian coffee and skin-still-on roasted cashews – khorosho (closest taste to this probably after death. In janna?) when my cellphone rudely farts. It’s one more maddening WhatsApp video forwards of the rites […]
Daily Life At CAI Sakina Home – Sa’naa, Yemen A glance at the daily lives of 150 orphans whom CAI donors support. They come to the specially made school for them, have breakfast, attend classes, perform extracurricular activities, play, drink milk, do their assignment, eat a late healthy lunch and return home to their guardians, […]
