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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 […]
WhatsApp Blues So I am holed up in Dubai for a week, in between projects because of the violence in Iraq. Both Sohail and I are supposed to travel to Nasiriyah, Iraq, to commission the drilling of a deep water well that’ll provide potable water to about 20,000 desperate people currently consuming contaminated water but […]
CAI Begins Winter Lifesaver Blanket Distributions: These blankets will be distributed in the remote areas of Yemen, Afghanistan, and India before December 31, 2019, insha’Allah. ZBH/CPES Construction Photos Progress: The facility is almost complete. With the harsh Afghan winter around the corner, work will cease until late March 2020. The entire project will be completed […]
A Flight Into Bamiyan After spending rough four days traversing the interiors of rugged rural Daykundi Province in Afghanistan, checking up on and auditing CAI’s five medical clinics, we are ready to travel to Bamiyan. The day in Nilli begins benign enough, but chilly, 38F. This might not be the end of the world for […]
Homeless Housing Project In Afghanistan – An Update 25 in remote Bamiyan and 12 homes in Kabul are almost ready and will be distributed to homeless widows with children. These candidates are meticulously researched to ensure only the neediest get the homes. Considering the remoteness of the area, the extreme elements and constant risk from […]
Gehraa Thoughts There is this teenager at Masjid al Hayy, in Sanford, that recently arouses my curiosity in him. He is striking, with clear eyes and is very fair – definitely not a typical Khoja. He is tall, with a full head of hair that is marred by a ghastly hairdo. The kind that teenagers […]
Blankets Save Lives: Winter is around the corner and CAI is mobilizing for the annual winter blankets drive to help those vulnerable survive the bitter cold, especially in central Afghanistan, where the snow and ice will kill. Let us help a poor widow with young children or elderly parents survive this period with a simple […]
