Creating Opportunities | Making the Impossible, Possible!
Exchanging School Desks For Smiles: For years, the children of Jojo at Skuli Ya Msingi Ya Jojo, Pemba, Tanzania, had no choice but to sit and study on dirt floors for their education. No more! CAI donors made the desks possible, bringing priceless smiles on their lips. Sharing a few photos: Senegal/Liberia/Sierra Leone: CAI Trustee, […]
Adventures In Senegal, Liberia, Sierra Leone The quest to offer quality education available to the children of poor communities worldwide provides CAI Trustees with wonderful opportunities for interesting and adventure-filled global travel. Last week, I am in West African with fellow Trustee Sohail and CAI African representative, Murtaza Bhimani. Consider my itinerary – Fly from […]
Water Project – Nasiriyah, Iraq There is an urgent need for clean potable water for the residents of Nasiriyah, Iraq. This will be CAI donor’s seventh major water project in Iraq, each benefiting about 20,000 harassed people desperate for water. Cost is about US$46,000 for the entire setup, including the desalination and purifying apparatus. The […]
Two very needy sites for water well, and any other projects that can assist the villagers to uplift the quality of their lives. 1.) Sheban Owino Koba – Imam of Busia mosque Area: Ebutokomi Sub Location: Sikinga Location: Bukhayo east Sub County: Nambale County: Busia Beneficiaries 45 families (7-8 people per family) 2.) Khadija Nyarotso […]
Will my Imam (a) Be Pleased? I’ve just concluded a busy day commemorating Ashura. What with the a’amaals and emotional drain from reenacting the brutal slaying of my beloved Imam (a) and the violation of his family’s rights, I am exhausted. So I return home from Masjid al Hayy, a short distance away, and fall […]
Mullah Mchungu Speaks His Mind I am, in my relationship with Mullah Mchungu, at a crossroads of sorts. I humor him when he calls, and take the time to listen to him, grin and bear it when he calls me by unpleasant tags like ghadeero (ass) and mwenda wazeemu (crazy). I know he is very […]
ZBH/CPES Kabul Orphanage / School: CAI sponsored Zahra Boys Home and school project is almost complete, ready for business early November insha’Allah. Sharing a few photos: Water Project – Naserriya, Iraq There is an urgent need for clean potable water for the residents of Nasiriyah, Iraq. This will be CAI donor’s seventh major water project […]
Vivid Imaginations – A Memoir: $55,000 has already been raised from the pre-sale booking of Vivid Imaginations – A Memoir. It is a recount of a memorable life of a Khoja Muslim with Gujarati genes, born and reared in E. Africa, migrating to the Middle East and then to the US. A frank and self-critical […]
A Scolding I am frantically hoping, nay, praying that the Masjid al Hayy / HIC union will survive the initial, natural and expected turbulence of any new alliance and settle on an understanding to continue the marriage amicably. My prayers are that some respected and experienced elders will intervene, bring the two sides to a […]
2019 Eid Qurbaani Update A total of 327 animals were slaughtered this year. 4 in Afghanistan, 10 in Bangladesh (for Rohingya refugees), 10 in India, 11 in Nepal (for Rohingya refugees), 100 in Kenya, 140 Tanzania, and 52 in Yemen. The meat and skin were distributed to the poor and destitute. Sharing a few photos: […]
