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Mumbai is sizzling; the heat is on. Mangoes, jammun, fannesi…and all the other summer fruits are ripening and will be ready to devour in about four – six weeks. But in my hotel room, away from the heat and pollution and flies and toxic mix of humanity just about 500 meters away, it is cool […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Ghazni Orphans Fund For 2016 Still In Deficit: CAI funds for our 50 boy orphans in Ghazni Orphanage in Afghanistan is still short US$36,000 for 2016. Please help us cover this deficit if you can so the uncertainties for their care and welfare can be removed. Sayed Mehdi Agha Jafri Needs Help: This poor 4-year-old […]
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 […]
Ghazni Orphans Need Help Urgently Our 50 boys orphanage in Ghazni, Afghanistan need your urgent help. These orphans were abandoned and CAI stepped in to give them a shelter and more importantly, a quality education. Unfortunately, their sponsorship funds are almost depleted and CAI appeals to generous donors to please step in and help. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
