Creating Opportunities | Making the Impossible, Possible!
Abdul Kareem Lalji is a big, towering personality; you can spot him from quite a distance. This largeness to his body size extends to his demeanor; cordial and likable, ready to listen to everybody with a ready, albeit wry smile. The man has been through a lot of trials and tribulations for a 43-year-old, 5 […]
2019 Ramadhan Iftaar Aid Update: 1,000 Cholera Infected Get CAI Donor Treatment In Yemen: About 700 children and 300 adults who are infected with cholera in Yemen receive CAI donor treatment. These victims were not vaccinated earlier by CAI program due to the remoteness of their residence. CAI Donor Aid To Mozambique Typhoon Victims Distributed: […]
Will missiles put rotis in our mouths? When my travels take me to Mumbai, India, which is often, I am royalty material. My encounter with immigration and customs is pleasant, courteous, brief. Being Platinum with The Leela, their driver picks me up in an airconditioned BMW and I am whisked up to my super-cooled room […]
2019 Ramadhan Iftaar Update: Updates On Halwana Sadat And Kodinar Schools – India: Trustees Abbas Jaffer and Ali Yusufali were on the ground at the CAI donor-funded work in progress schools at Kodinar, Gujarat and Halwana Sadat, UP India. These 2 impoverished areas, whose children lack education facilities, especially for girls, will soon insha’Allah have […]
Lucky Sohail and I are in the land of the Imams (a) once more, but this time, during the blessed birthdays of Shaban 3 and 4. Oh, what a soopa treat! Emirates Airline’s stepsister, flydubai, with matching step-sisterly service and attitude, flies us down to Najaf, where we arrive 30 minutes late, with my ears […]
Ramadhan 2019 – Appeal For Iftaar Feeding 2 Deep Water-wells In Basra, Iraq Commissioned CAI Trustees Sohail Abdullah and Ali Yusufali were in Basra, Iraq for the commissioning of the remaining 2 deep water-wells that CAI donors sponsored for the struggling community there. These water-wells now provide enough potable water for the needs of about […]
I’m on my way to Kabul, Afghanistan. Again. My 38th time to this traumatized country in the past 12 years or so CAI has been active here. The diverse challenges the Trustees of CAI face in managing the various humanitarian projects in this badbakht country is unrelenting and never cease. Most disconcerting is the safety […]
India – Home Away From Home? India is my second home; I spend a lot of time here. I’ve been visiting this mahaan country, off and on, since 1980. I even lived here for 3 years, from 2008 through 2011. I have a love/hate relationship with her. I guess it’s like being with a spouse […]
Ramadhan 2019 – Appeal For Iftaar Feeding The holy month of Ramadhan, when we try and share our bounties with those who don’t have enough to eat, is about 2 months away, but CAI must start preparing the logistics of purchase and distribution of food grains now. Alhamd’Allah, this will be CAI’s 23rd year of […]
A Startling Call To Prayer Murtaza Bhimani and I are driving to Kolda, Senegal to inspect a CAI school that was constructed here for the poor community a couple of years ago. Also, CAI is contemplating another small school in another village 4 hours along the way for the children deprived the opportunity of a […]
