Creating Opportunities | Making the Impossible, Possible!
Flying into cooler Nairobi from Mumbai is such a relief, even for a few days. The best part of Nairobi, I think, is the weather, because let me tell you, traffic frustrations will take my life, in one form or another, should I choose to stick around for any length of time. I thought it […]
BETA / CAI Efforts For Yemen Milk Program Continues The joint efforts of Beta Charitable Trust UK, and CAI USA continues with the milk feeding program for children suffering from severe malnutrition in Yemen due to the continued blockade. The most recent distribution will be the fourth, bringing relief, albeit temporary, to the suffering masses. […]
Happy Birthday Clearing immigration at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport is now a piece of cake, since I have done it so many times, and I am at the Leela less than ten minutes later. My mind reeling with jetlag after almost twenty-four hours of flying, I am dead to the world the moment my […]
On the first leg of our flight to Haiti, a woman announced to me that she was returning home after eight years, overjoyed yet simultaneously somehow dazed. In the same breath, however, as she rattled off all the places she was going to visit (in a sputtering frenzy of spit projectiles landing somewhere between my […]
It is apparent that Mullah Mchungu is haunted by various frenzied doodoo’s in his head. Not the pacified ones I find here in Sanford, FL. These are the fiery ones from jungles of Africa, settled in Dar es Sallam. They sting and cloud up his intellect. The intellect that would caution people like you and […]
AI / BETA Begin Reconstruction Of 300 Destroyed Rohingya Homes In Myanmar (Burma): Here are few photos of homes already reconstructed for the Rohingyas that were destroyed by the Myanmar army. It takes only US$140 per family to redo a communal home as the Myanmar army will not allow the reconstruction of individual homes. Each […]
Khoja, Khoja? Unlike the 14-inches plus snow on the streets of New England states up north, it’s a beautiful Florida winter afternoon here; abundant warm sunshine, with nothing but blue in the skies. I am in the middle of giving profuse thanks to Allah for this blessing when Mullah Mchungu calls on WhatsApp with his […]
Amazon Smile On CAI: Reminder – please use Amazon Smile if you order stuff from Amazon and designate Comfort Aid International as beneficiary. CAI gets a tiny rebate – every penny counts! Ahsant. 32 Iraq Housing Projet Update – Photos: Here are the latest photos from the project site. Education Projects In Senegal / Liberia […]
Timbuctoo! Geography, in elementary school, was a treat; for me. I would close my eyes and conjure images of different countries, peoples, cultures, and foods of our world. Timbuctoo, in Mali, always had an aura of mystery and danger, an irresistible air of adventure, of camels and trade caravans akin to the time of our […]
40 Homes For The Homeless Distributed In Afghanistan: 40 of the 95 remote homes have now been handed over to the beneficiaries and the balance will be completed as soon as winter thaws by April insha’Allah. These are gifted to the very poor and destitute, with preference given to widows and single mothers. Blankets Distributed […]
