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Holy Cow, Holy Ass, Holy Mess! I’ve blogged about India extensively. It’s a great country, my genes originate here, and it is my second home, since I visit her several times a year. India is also varied, complex and multicultural, she constantly elates and vexes me, and is a source of much pain, tragedy, and […]
Eid Qurbaani – Last Chance CAI will insha’Allah facilitate the sacrifice and distribution of meat and skin to the poor and destitute in Afghanistan, Bangladesh (Rohingya refugees), India, Kenya, Tanzania, and Yemen. Payments and or pledges must be completed by August 5 for the following rates to apply. Unfortunately, we cannot entertain any requests after […]
A Khoja Wedding In Montreal Montreal roads are best left to French Canadians; they are more suited to understand the mess that is navigating through this French-speaking city in otherwise more saner English speaking Canada; I only pray this statement does not create an uproar in the parliament in Ottawa. The roads from the airport […]
Qurbaani – Eid al Adha CAI will insha’Allah facilitate the sacrifice and distribution of meat and skin to the poor and destitute in Afghanistan, Bangladesh (Rohingya refugees), India, Kenya, Tanzania, and Yemen. Payments and or pledges must be completed by August 5 for the following rates to apply. Unfortunately, we cannot entertain any requests after […]
Jiyo Pakistan, Zindabaad! You’d think Fatima and Nazir Merali’s home in Northwood, London is Janna, what with the variety of fruits on the table. We have Kesar mangoes from India, papaya from Brazil, plump cherries, apricots, plums, watermelon, oranges, and bananas! All exceedingly delicious. The one thing I have an issue with the UK is […]
50 HIV Families To Continue Getting Food Aid: The 50 HIV families who have benefited from CAI food aid will continue receiving this benefit for the next year insha’Allah. The drugs that keep them alive need good food nutrition for it to be effective. Please help CAI sustain these hapless Allah’s creations. Allah bless. CAI […]
You may want to read part one here first? When I see these three girls, my heart does a somersault; Zainab, the middle one, has no shoes! She dons a pair of chaffed and dirty plastic chappals with thin socks hiding her feet. At my urging, Nabavi stops to chat with them, but Fatema, the […]
Zakat ul Fitr Update: About 700 plus eligible recipients in Afghanistan, India, Tanzania, and Yemen received US$20,000 in Zakat ul Fitr between June 6 and June 9. Sharing a few photos: SOS Food Aid To S. Sudan: CAI will shortly be sending urgently needed food aid to the serious famine situation in war-torn South Sudan […]
I have never penned the story of how I landed up in and got involved with Afghanistan. The closest I can get to describing the feeling I have for this battered country is of a mother to her child. She bears incredible pain at childbirth, yet the love after the birth, even if the child […]
CAI To Operate A Day Orphanage In Sana’a, Yemen: CAI has, over the past 4 years, provided donor aid to the victims of war-ravaged Yemen. This aid has been in the form of food, high protein, high calories powder milk for the malnutrition infants, vaccines against cholera for over 24,000 children (thus far) and medicines […]
