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Dima Mardini is a lanky, attractive Syrian woman who has seen more than her share of sorrows for a 26-year-old. I meet her at the Deira City Center in Dubai recently. She is to help me research and develop the plot for my upcoming 4th novel based in Syria during the recent war. Dima has […]
Eid el Adha Animal Qurbani CAI will once again facilitate the sacrifice of animals as per the following location and prices: Afghanistan – $120 / Africa average – $50 / India – $86 / Yemen – $140 Please note confirmed orders or payments must be made 2 days before Eid day; all payments or orders […]
I posted this Blog in December 2016. Much has changed for the Rohingyas since then. Thousands have been killed and the survivors have been exiled from Burma proper and now rot away in the swamps of squalor camps at Cox’s Bazar – Bangladesh. CAI is active in caring for 140 orphans in a purpose-built school […]
Parachinar Hospital Extention Update This CAI donor-funded hospital addition is almost complete and will begin urgent services to the vulnerable in the very near future insha’Allah. – sharing a few photos. The Use Of Your Sadqa Donations Life / Death emergency cases take up a large percentage of the sadqa funds donated to CAI. For […]
Inseeya Fatema’s Story / This Is Mumbai, Meri Jaan Inseeya Fatema’s Story Inseeya Fatema had reached out to CAI for help with her unaffordable school fees some 7 years ago. CAI was able to help and she managed to complete her college education. She is now gainfully employed as an assistant accountant and engaged to […]
Tanga Changa School Water Project This elementary school in Tanga, Tanzania has an acute need for water. Students do not drink potable water and go to the bathroom with no water and pitiful, filthy conditions. CAI donors are able to turn their situation around. Construction of a water well, storage tanks and a place to […]
Read Part 1 Within 24 hours of returning from Daykundi, Yusufali, Sohail, Wasi, Shaida and I fly to Mazar-i-Sharif. It is where CAI has embarked on constructing 100 homes for homeless families, in addition to building a school to serve the underprivileged villages. Upon approaching Kabul airport we hear an all-familiar explosion; most of the […]
Zakaat Fitr CAI will be distributing your Zakaat Fitr obligations to those eligible poor in various countries once more insha’Allah. Recommend amount is US$10 each per individual. Please donate or pledge by June 14 – final. If the donations/pledges are received after this time, it will be distributed after Eid day on kadha basis. A […]
An orphan’s baba – I am done with the fun and adventure in Vietnam and Cambodia, and although my injured leg from the bicycling accident in Vietnam is still giving me throbbing intermittent grief, I find me, accompanied by fellow CAI Trustee Sohail Abdullah on an airplane heading to Kabul. Joining us are well-wishers Shaida […]
2018 Ramadhan Iftaar Appeal – Another Success Alhamd’Allah, generous worldwide donors were able to raise the funds for this project and iftaar food packs have/are being delivered to over 10,000 poor families in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Guinea, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Somaliland, Sierra Leone, […]
