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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 […]
CAI Donors Gifts To Chimba School 3 new classrooms, a newly constructed toilet block and 60 new desks were gifted to this school in a poor locality of Pemba island in Tanzania. These 500 plus children who had dilapidated toilets, sat slouched in crowded dirt floors will now have some comfort seeking an education. Read […]
I am on my way to Africa. It’s to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda this time. CAI donors have invested in multiple projects in Kenya and we must make sure all these are defect-free. In Tanzania, I’ll commission the new Sakina Girls Home in Zanzibar, caring for orphan girls with total care and an opportunity for […]
CAI Welcomes 50 Additional Yemen Orphans 50 more poor internally displaced orphans were welcomed into the Sakina Home in Sana’a, Yemen recently. These orphans can now be assured of all life’s necessities including quality education at probably the only operation school in the destroyed city. CAI Donor Lifesaver Food Aid To Yemen Continues Critical life-saving […]
I have known the Kutchi family for years; indeed, I went to high school with Ameer Khuchi in Tanga, Tanzania at the Popatlal Secondary School. It was a family not unlike mine then, or any other middle-class family of Asian Khojas whose ancestors made East Africa home. Ameer Kutchi was an athlete, a good cricketer, […]
Critical Winter CAI Aid For Yemen CAI is in the process of distributing one thousand thick warm blankets to internally displaced refugees in Yemen, affording the most vulnerable a little comfort against a chilly winter that can grip the country. Sharing some distribution photos: Poor Schools In Tanzania Get Desks 120 desks sitting 3 each […]
My cellphone with Mullah Mchungu’s name flashes about a minute after CNN calls the duo of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden as victors of the 2020 US presidential elections. I am glued to the idiot box the last three days, breaking only for salaat, sleeping off and on, using the loo, or working out; I […]
2020 Winter lifesaving blankets for Afghanistan / Yemen The goal is within reach. Please consider donating a blanket or more to ensure a homeless or destitute widow with children will sleep in relative comfort this winter. These very thick (5 kilos each covering an adult and a child in comfort) cost US$25 each, and are […]
