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CAI 2013 Ramadhan Iftar Appeal Iftaar distribution is well under way in Tanzania, Bangladesh, India and Afghanistan but we are seriously short in collecting funds. Please help us feed a poor family this month of mercy. Thanks. CAI Sponsored Laiberia Schools Get Underway Two CAI donor sponsored schools, one outside Monrovia and the other at […]
CAI 2013 Ramadhan Iftar Appeal Food Aid For Syrian Refugees CAI needs help with food aid to refugees fleeing violence in Syria. Plans are in final stages to distribute ten trucks of food grains to starving families, each truck worth US$10,000; these will be distributed July 4 – 6 insha’Allah. Please realize these fleeing refugees […]
CAI 2013 Ramadhan Iftar Appeal Expands We were forced to expand our humanitarian Ramadhan Iftaar distribution due to urgent appeals from African countries; collections are still short by about US$25,000. Your donations are making possible a decent iftaar to the poor in following countries: Afghanistan – 3,200 families Bangladesh – 300 families Burkina Faso – […]
CategoriesBlogsHere are two stories on orphans that I have been flowing up lately. Both relate to Sakina Girls Home (SGH), an all-girl orphanage in Andheri, Mumbai, India which CAI supports. One is of two new applicants and other is a follow-up on two orphans who grew up, received a quality education and now, as adults, […]
CAI 2013 Ramadhan Iftar Appeal Food Aid For Syrian Refugees CAI needs help with food aid to refugees fleeing violence in Syria. Plans are in final stages to distribute ten trucks of food grains to starving families, each truck worth US$10,000; these will be distributed July 4 – 6 insha’Allah. Eight trucks have already been […]
Monrovia Liberia, on the coast of West Africa is an exceedingly dreary city; dismay sets in at first sight. Murtaza Bhimani, my colleague, friend and CAI representative for Africa is with me; we are here for due diligence on a school project for poor Muslim children. It is a twelve-hour flight from Dar to Nairobi […]
…continued from Afghanistan Once Again – Part One: Back to Nili airport and off to Yakawlang! The unholy hour of 3:30 strikes again! Our alarm clock is none other than Yusufali himself. Somehow he is always first awake and manages to find a place between snoring heads to place a jaanamaaz! We take turns to […]
CAI 2013 Ramadhan Iftar Appeal Food Aid For Syrian Refugees CAI needs help with food aid to refugees fleeing violence in Syria. Plans are in final stages to distribute ten trucks of food grains to starving families, each truck worth US$10,000. Seven trucks have already been sponsored. Please help if you can. Sirsi Sadaat Housing […]
I am in a terrible mood. Really. You would be as well, if you went through a colonoscopy and stepped on shit. I am in Mumbai, India, taking a breather after a grueling week in Afghanistan and few days in UP, India. My doctor advises it would be a good idea to have a complete […]
Visiting Afghanistan is always a challenge; security jitters, uncertainties about almost everything, inordinate security checks, senseless laws, rural and remote areas horrendous logistics, and the weather can and does play havoc on visitors, especially NGO’s like CAI. Even more frustrating, to me, is the protocol of pretense so prevalent in Afghan culture; why, what a […]
