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Ramadhan 2017 Iftaar Relief Fund Commences: It is the month of Rajab, and as in the past 19 years, CAI is gearing up to feed the poor and destitute iftaar in the upcoming month of Ramadhan insha’Allah. Basic food grains like rice, wheat flour, pulses, tea, sugar, cooking oil and dates will be distributed in […]
Summers in Mumbai are hot and steamy, but Allah has bestowed many advantages and mercies in this furnace-like weather as well. The tropical fruits I so lovingly covet mature in the sauna, so they ripen and sweeten. The results are spectacularly delicious jackfruits, jamuns (Java plums), papaya and the king of all fruits – the […]
Ramadhan 2017 Iftaar Relief Fund Commences: It is the month of Rajab, and as in the past 19 years, CAI is gearing up to feed the poor and destitute iftaar in the upcoming month of Ramadhan insha’Allah. Basic food grains like rice, wheat flour, pulses, tea, sugar, cooking oil and dates will be distributed in […]
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 […]
