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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 […]
An orphan’s Baba I am done with the fun and adventure in Vietnam and Cambodia, and although my injured leg from the bicycling accident in Vietnam is still giving me throbbing intermittent grief, I find myself, accompanied by fellow CAI Trustee Sohail Abdullah on an airplane heading to Kabul. Joining us are well-wishers Shaida from […]
Food And Powder Milk Aid To Yemen Continues Donors of CAI continue the lifeline support to the desperate food situation in Yemen with monthly aid of food and powder milk for infants. Sharing the most recent aid distribution photos: Daily Milk For CAI Orphans All 770 plus global CAI donor-supported orphans get all their basic […]
Happy New Year? The year 2020 is history. Unprecedented in the misery and death it spewed. I don’t believe my ancestors going back 100 years experienced anything like this past year, where the very air we breathe is suspect. Friends and family greet me on New Year’s Day with a chirpy happy new year and […]
CAI Donors To Adopt 140 Orphans In Uganda CAI donors are to adopt 140 orphans living in squalid conditions in two centers of remote Uganda, in Senene and Tamasaka. These two centers will be refurbished with hygienic sleeping / living quarters, healthy food, decent clothing, reconstruction of their dilapidated classrooms, and desks to sit on. […]
This COVID doodoo is creating so much havoc in my life, I feel it is the ‘greater jihad’ that the maulanas keep on reminding me from the pulpit. Murtaza Bhimani and I try to take off for Kampala from Dar but the Center for Disease Control in Dar works on their own leisurely pace and […]
