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Sindh, Pakistan Floods – CAI Donors Send Food/Water Aid Unprecedented rains in Pakistan have left thousands in people in Sindh homeless and hungry, especially the poor. Karachi has been especially hard hit, crippling the city. CAI has teamed up with Hussaini Foundation to feed 1,400 families essential rations worth Rs.2,500 each. The initial target amount […]
Muharram Amongst The Doodoos The solemn days of Muharram are fast closing in so I rush back home to Sanford, FL from Tanzania where I am for two weeks inspecting/auditing CAI projects. Why? So that I can avoid the crush of Khoja mourners making their way to Dar from all over the world. It is […]
CAI Plans To Expand Yemen Orphan Care To 200 As you may already know, CAI supports 100 poor orphans in Yemen, 50 girls/50 boys. These orphans are part of the 660 worldwide poor orphans CAI supports, providing them a life of decency and dignity. This includes quality education, which is the cornerstone of their upkeep. […]
Aid To Beirut – Lebanon CAI donors reacted to the tragedy in Beirut, Lebanon, and aid was on its way within three days, bringing hard to source food and medical supplies to the victims of the blast. CAI is still short of funds for this project so please help if you can. Sharing a few […]
Officially, Tanzania has a policy that all travelers entering the country carry a COVID-19 negative certificate. Murtaza Bhimani, CAI’s Africa representative brings this requirement to my attention a few days before I am to take off, putting me into a tizzy, trying to arrange a test. This is not so easy in Florida where the […]
Disaster In Beirut, Lebanon – Urgent SOS With Beirut declared as a disaster-stricken city, the massive blast earlier on August 5 has caused widespread damage leaving over 150 people dead, nearly 4,000 injured and 300,000 homeless. These numbers will undoubtedly be higher once the chaos subsides. CAI has committed to help with an immediate need […]
I Remember I remember Mama giving me a sumni (half a Tanzanian shilling; worth nothing now) to go purchase a half loaf of bread; a whole bread was a shilling (about US$0.000043 today). It was a karak-crisp white loaf, still kiln-warm, emitting tummy-rumbling aroma, the only variety available for purchase. The bread aisle at Walmart […]
Qurbaani Note: CAI is not accepting qurbaani requests for Africa and India anymore; all others still available until July 28, 2020. Aid To Displaced Afghan Refugees: About 300 families (3,000 people) were recently forced out of their village near Belkhab in Sarepole District of Afghanistan and fled to Mazaar Shereef for safety. They now […]
Bollywood A lot of us Asians born in East Africa in the fifties, sixties, and seventies were shaped, rightly or wrongly, by Bollywood of India; our paradigms and lives were molded by the images on the large silver screens where actors impacted, to a large extent, our lifestyles and sadly, our family values as well. […]
Eid Qurbaani – 2020 COVID-19 Aid In Yemen Made worse by the incessant war and wanton loss of innocent life, the COVID-19 situating in Yemen is horrible and daunting. CAI donors have been, since 2017, committed to food, powder-milk and medical aid for these hapless people. Aid has also been sent for the relief and […]
