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Such Is Life I must visit India and Bangladesh, to hell with the bloody Doodoo. It’s been over a year since I was there; compliance audits for CAI projects in both countries await me. I especially long to meet the 200 Rohingya orphans at their ramshackle camp outside Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, again. CAI donors have […]
Ramadhan Iftaar Appeal The mobilization for the feeding of the worldwide poor and destitute for the 24th successive year, alham’Allah, is now well underway. The goal is to provide basic supplemental iftaar needs of 14,844 poor families in 18 countries – Afghanistan, Rohingyas refugees in Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, India, Iraq, Liberia, Kenya, Nepal, […]
Felled By Two Accursed M’buus Let me relate to you the story of two m’buus, may Allah curse them until the day of reckoning. Now, you cannot hurry me up. This story must be told at my pace, the way I want it. So, I suggest you make yourself a cup of chai, or coffee, […]
Ramadhan Iftaar Appeal The mobilization for the feeding of the worldwide poor and destitute for the 24th successive year, alham’Allah, is now underway. The goal is to provide basic supplemental iftaar needs of 14,844 poor families in 18 countries – Afghanistan, Rohingyas refugees in Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, India, Iraq, Liberia, Kenya, Nepal, Niger, […]
So, I’m in steamy, soupy Dar es Salaam at the moment, settling in for a few months so that I can do justice to the ongoing CAI projects. It is the first time in almost a year that I fly Emirates. The airline has suddenly become overly generous, extending my Platinum tier miles for two […]
Ramadhan Iftaar Appeal The mobilization of feeding of the worldwide poor and destitute for the 24th successive year, alham’Allah in now under way. The goal is to provide basic supplemental iftaar needs of 14,844 poor families in 18 countries – Afghanistan, Rohingyas refugees in Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, India, Iraq, Liberia, Kenya, Nepal, Niger, […]
Mullah Mchungu And The Super Bowl I am well rested from my trip to East Africa where cases of the Doodoo are on the up and up once again, especially in Tanzania. The increase in the death toll within the Khoja community in Dar es Salaam has prompted the powers-to-be to be extra vigilant and […]
CAI Must Mobilize For Ramadhan Iftaar It’s the month of Rajab and CAI must mobilize for the annual Ramadhan iftaar feeding to the worldwide poor and destitute – for the 24th successive year, alham’Allah. The goal is to provide basic supplemental iftaar needs of 14,000 poor families in 18 countries – Afghanistan, Rohingyas refugees in […]
Sabah Gets Married It is twenty years ago when I meet Sabah Nazim Hussein in Kolkata, India. Her mother has passed away giving birth to her fourth child. The father, desperate and destitute, decides to sell one of his infant sons for money. Shocked, dismayed, and angered at the deranged man, bless him, Aliakber Ratansi […]
CAI Donates Hospital Equipment To Wete, Pemba CAI donors donated critical equipment worth Tanzanian Shillings 12,000,000 (about US$5,200) to a poor hospital lacking them in Wete, Pemba. Sharing few photos: Lives Saved By CAI Donors Due to the saline nature of water in Afghanistan, and potable water is a financial challenge, the poor suffer and […]
