Creating Opportunities | Making the Impossible, Possible!
CAI’s 43rd Sponsored School Opens: This school, in Al Kifl, about 40 kilometers from Najaf, Iraq officially opened with Trustee Yusufali present. A wonderful day for the 400 odd poor children who will not have to trek 7 kilometers to and from school every day, for the wonderful donors making such projects possible and for […]
My Name Is Salman Khan! So brags Salman, a circa nine-year-old I encounter the day before yesterday, walking the short distance from the Leela Hotel, a stone’s throw from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. It simply used to be called Bombay International Airport during saner, more cheerful times. Although the Leela is a piece […]
Yemen – An Epic Catastrophe On a macro level, the disaster in Yemen is devastating, paralyzing and overwhelming, totally illogical and dehumanizing. We see the statistics and they become incomprehensible facts and numbers after a while – millions on the verge of starvation, disease and the constant barrage of senseless destruction. On a micro level, […]
The #MeToo Movement, Scary Times. For Me. Mullah Mchungu has me scared silly. So scared, that I have begun living the life of an upright mo’min in India, to the tee. It all starts here in Mumbai, where I am holed up for a few days, auditing and making sure CAI’s many Indian projects are […]
Tsunami In Indonesia – CAI’s Humanitarian Efforts US$14,000 worth of relief supplies have been sent to the tsunami affected areas of Sulawesi Island of Indonesia. Tents and drinking water has been distributed to those who are most affected. Sharing photos of the distribution: 1st Water Well In Basra, Iraq Strike Water: The first water well […]
An African Trip – Of Hope And Toothaches Royal Air Moroc have a policy, I suppose, of total darkness in the aircraft cabin from the minute the cold and tasteless snack service is over to the time it begins descending at the destination. It’s a cue to all traveling in cattle class to sleep, no […]
Tsunami In Indonesia – A Cry For Help CAI is getting ready to send assistance to the surviving victims of the devastating tsunami that destroyed the island of Sulawesi in general and the towns of Palu and Dongala in particular, killing over a 1,300 people. Tents and potable drinking water is what is urgently needed. […]
Muharram – Then, Now The 10 days of rituals that lead up to Ashura were one of the most important religious rites I eagerly participated as a child; still do, albeit for altered reasons. These are the annual rites that Ahlebeyti Muslims commemorate the tragic events that gripped Karbala some 15 centuries ago. Even as […]
This Village In Basra Need Clean Water Urgently: The 3 deep water wells that CAI donors facilitated between Najaf and Kerbala 3 years ago is working wonders, supplying clean, potable water to thousands. Another village, in Basra, Iraq with 25,000 plus people drink contaminated water. CAI wants to help them get clean water. The cost […]
Mullah Mchungu’s Spanking Dilemma So, I am frustratingly trying to extract impossible to get information about a reported Taliban attack on the city of Ghazni, Afghanistan where 50 orphan boys cared for by CAI are located when my cellphone farts, flashing Mullah Mchungu’s name. I curse, almost. I have tons of pending fires I need […]
