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The flight from Orlando to Mumbai with a stop in Dubai is over twenty-three hours, and jet lag does not let me sleep much last night. Still, it is the wafaat of my Imam Hassan (a), so I have to pay my respects, naturally. So I take the crowded Metro line from the Leela Hotel […]
Milk For Children – Yemen The food crises in Yemen is desperate, we all know this. CAI cannot solve the entire problem but children going without milk is not conscionably acceptable. Not doing anything is not an option. CAI trustees will attempt to visit Yemen shortly and distribute milk worth US$50,000 to the starving in […]
Haiti is a dismal place; it was drab back in 2010 when CAI was involved in humanitarian efforts for the victims of the colossal earthquake that claimed 230,000 plus lives; it remains dingy now. Read about my experience then, here. It’s depressing after six years, made more so by Hurricane Matthew’s fury about a month ago, […]
It is only nineteen days to the history-making day in my fine (adopted) country; the final presidential debate is over, and I’ll soon return to not hearing ‘he said she said’ rhetoric and all the excitement and vigor of a robust and relatively free democracy. Not ideally free and democratic, but still one of the […]
CAI To Construct A New School At Halvana Sadaat, UP India The school will cater for 1,000 poor children in two shifts, especially girls who do not get a formal education because of distance and poverty. This will be CAI’s 31st school globally and 7th school in India, fitting in nicely with CAI’s priority towards […]
I testify there is no god but Allah. I testify there are no associates to Allah; He is One, the Only, the most High, the absolute Authority, the most Just, the Master of the Day of Judgement and that I am only a mortal slave of Him. I further testify that Mohammed (s) is Allah’s […]
Cash Crunch CAI is experiencing an acute cash flow crunch, especially in regards to medical clinic operations in Afghanistan and with helping life / death cases in India. Urgent help is required in these categories and all help, whatever amounts, will be greatly appreciated. Please visit www.comfortaid.org, go to Donate page and choose Afghanistan Medical […]
I have covered India, United Kingdom, Nepal, Morocco and Senegal on this trip thus far; UAE and Afghanistan await. So I am not to be faulted when I land in Kabul feeling a bit jaded. Sohail Abdullah, my fellow CAI Trustee from New York, accompanies me on this leg of the trip and we clear […]
Flying from Orlando to Dubai on Emirates Airlines recently, I encounter a Kuwaiti family who are seated in the same cabin as I. There is the elderly mother, in hijab, abaaya actually, who converses with me in flawless English, and her two daughters. One’s married and has two children, twins, both undisciplined terrors who give […]
Eid Qurbani Distribution – An Update: Over 77 animals for Eid Qurbani were sacrificed and the meat and skin distributed to the poor and destitute in remote Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Tanzania. The majority of the project was completed on Monday, September 11 and balance on day two of Eid. Trapped In Nepal – Plight […]
