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Basra Water Well 2/3 Mobilizing Alhamd’Allah, CAI is mobilizing the drilling of deep water wells 2 and 3 in water-starved areas of Basra, Iraq. These wells will greatly alleviate the sufferings of about 30,000 hapless people who have to do with contaminated water now. Sharing a few photos of the mobilization. Rohingya Orphans And Water […]
Reminding Me Of Zainab: I am bleary eyed and woozy headed, seated on an Emirates Airline flight waiting to be flown to Mumbai after completing the seemingly non-ending 15 hours flight from Orlando to Dubai, with an added 3 hours transit wait. So, you will appreciate I am not in the best of moods. Especially […]
Vaccinating 7,000 Additional Children – Yemen With additional funding by NASIMCO, USA, CAI has embarked on vaccinating 4,000 additional children against cholera in war-torn Yemen. Each vaccine costs US$10 per child and will continue as long as there is funding available insha’Allah. This project will bring the total number of vulnerable children vaccinated against cholera […]
CAI has built and operates 6 medical clinics in the remotest lands in Allah’s creation – the treacherous mountain terrain of Afghanistan. These distant lands are home to perhaps the poorest and disadvantaged people on earth. Most of the 300 sick people who are treated in these clinics daily, for free, have never seen a […]
Vaccinating 5,000 Additional Children – Yemen CAI has embarked on vaccinating 5,000 additional children against cholera in war-torn Yemen. This project is undertaken using a mobile clinic in order to minimize risks associated with a centralized location. Each vaccine costs US$10 per child. This project will bring the total number of vulnerable children vaccinated so […]
I have observed Mohammedhadi Somji, a distant relative of mine, for a few years. I have seen him attending lectures at HIC with an aid of an along-white cane, sitting cross-legged through lectures and ignored by his peers, leaving for home with his parents. He intrigued me. Although I greeted and kidded around with him, […]
The Value Of An Education – CAI’s CPES School, Kabul These photos paint a pretty, promising picture for the next generation of Afghans, insha’Allah. The Rebuilding Of Yemen – Focus On Education We pray that the initial tentative signs of peace become permanent soon insha’Allah, so that CAI can focus on more sustainable projects that […]
Hameesi, Mullah Mchungu’s grinning native Tanzanian caretaker, lets me into the sparse apartment in the ancient and drab building that is Mullah’s home since he was born in Dar es Salaam eons ago. He points, still grinning, to the still form of his boss, relaxing in an antique hammock type seat that I used to […]
Tears Of Blood Here is a narrative of a Rohingya massacre survivor who made it alive to Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, after seeing her husband shot dead in cold blood, raped by several Myanmar army personnel and seeing her 18-month infant murdered in front of her eyes. Read the in-person interview by Ali Yusufali here. Cycling […]
My Tears Of Blood – Asma’s Story I have been associated with Burma’s Rohingya minority since 2012, when the initial massacre by the country’s army sent refugees teeming into Bangladesh for succor. Then, CAI donors assisted with food and tents sent to the victims at the camps set up by UNHCR. I was also able […]
