Creating Opportunities | Making the Impossible, Possible!
Amina and Zulfiqar Alikhan from College Station, TX are some of the most strident supporters and well-wishers of Comfort Aid International. So when they requested that I take on their son Aabid with me to the next ‘safe’ CAI expedition, I had no qualms about it. I invited him to visit the Philippines with Sohail […]
CAI’s ZBH and CPES In Kabul – Almost There… The Zahra Boys Home (ZBH) for 100 orphans and CAI Private English School (CPES) extension project is now complete – almost. It will be painted after winter in March insha’Allah and ready for complete occupation. Sharing a few photos. CAI Donor Aid To Displaced Yemenis Continues […]
Unity Games – Dubai Dubai is bustling with humanity. Again. The balmy weather, spectacular New Year’s fireworks and the irresistible itch to splurge at the soopa pricey malls in this city is too much of a pull. I suppose. The hotel I usually stay near the airport costing around US$70/night has shot up to US$360/night […]
CAI To Commission 51st Global School CAI donors will construct their 51st school in a poor community in Burgos, Philippines shortly insha’Allah. The initial phase will be for potable water with a water-well followed by toilets for both sexes. This will be followed by the reconstruction of their dilapidated school structure. Burgos is an ingenious […]
Attitude Of Gratitude – Looking Death In The Eye I lost a close second-niece of mine, Salma, to lupus disease turned to cancer recently; she was not even 41 years old and a mother of two very young children. I had a strong bond of sorts with this particular niece – I have tons of […]
Protein For Rohingya Refugees CAI donors have set up 6 weeks of protein distribution to Rohingya and Afghanistani refugees suffering in refugee camps in Kathmandu, Nepal, especially for deprived children. The lack of sufficient proteins has dramatic detrimental effects on growing children so this feeding program will alleviate the problem somewhat insha’Allah. Sharing a few […]
It’s All About Paisa, Nai! The squeaky-clean Khoja musafarkhana in Najaf is empty; almost. Perhaps if the management opened it up to all zawaars it might get some traction? Especially since huquuq funds have been used to construct it? Huquuq as in everybody has a right to it? My past protests at this apparent inequity […]
School Extension/Toilets For Monrovia School – A Photo Update The CAI donor sponsored school and toilet project in Monrovia, Liberia is nearing completion. Where children were going to the bushes for nature calls will now have a modern bathroom with privacy. The high school busting with students will have more space for comfortable study. CAI’s […]
I am sicker than a dog and feel lousy with an annoying head cold, all the way from Orlando to JFK, Dubai and eventually Najaf, almost 24-hours later. Sitting, on the Dubai to Najaf flight, in the adjacent aisle, is an elderly Bohri guy sporting a flowing white beard; his wife and daughter in law […]
School In Karachi, Pakistan Get Computers Qamar-e-Bani Hasham Elementary School, a slum school in Karachi desperately needed computers for their poor students and CAI donors obliged. Sharing a few photos of these students in serious study. Appeal For Feeding HIV Orphans In Zanzibar CAI is extending the protein feeding program for 50 poor HIV orphans […]
