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CAI Newsletter – March 2016 – B

CAI Donors Gift 185 Poor Bangladeshi Students School Tuition Support: For the 7th year running, CAI is supporting 185 very poor elementary school students with tuition fees in 2016. These have maintained a minimum B overall grade average in their past exam results. This support will insha’Allah continue as long as these grades are maintained. […]

A Blast In Tucson

CAI gives me repeated opportunities and the good fortune of knowing and interacting with an overwhelming number of people I have never met! Some through CAI’s activity updates and many others through the Blogs I author. One such person is Farookh Khambathy, who lives in Tucson, AZ with his family. I did not know this […]

CAI Newsletter – March 2016 – A

Issues With Srilanka Water Wells: CAI deeply regrets to inform all donors that five out of the six Srilanka water-well project has been cancelled due to protracted local land disputes and monitoring issues. CAI is willing and ready to either refund these funds to donors or roll them towards similar water well projects currently in […]

Undesirable Handshakes

Mullah Mchungu has promoted himself to a motorized wheelchair; he zips into my living room as soon as I open the door, as if escaping an assailant. I catch a glimpse of a vehicle backing out of my driveway and speeding away, the grim face of a youngish woman full of venom behind the wheels. […]

A Suitable Rishta

Lubna Sheykh (name altered) is a rather assertive, rather plump, rather dark thirty-something, who works as a Guest Relationship Manager for the hotel I usually stay at Mumbai, near the Chakrappaty International Airport. Her most winning features are two deep dimples on her chubby cheeks that feature prominently, whether smiling (which is often) or scowling […]

It’s Gas, Sahib, Bad Gas

It has been very hectic four weeks on the road; living off suitcases, sleeping erratically, eating subpar airplane and restaurant foods across India and Afghanistan. Inaugurating two schools, housing projects, butting heads with contractors in tentative Dari while shivering in sub-zero Kabul weather, fretting over and juggling perpetual precariously low CAI cash flows, cajoling donors […]

CAI Newsletter – January 2016 – B

2015 US tax receipts: All 2015 US tax receipts have been distributed. Please contact Hasnain Yusufali on yusufali@email.com if you have not received yours. SGS School – Kabul – Photo update: This project, Sakina Girls School, is nearing completion, opening early May insha’Allah. All welcome for the grand opening on May 12 insha’Allah. Accommodation in […]