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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 […]
CAI 2013 Ramadhan Iftar Appeal 50 Sadaat Home In Pakistan Underway The 50 sadaat home project in Punjab, Pakistan is well under way; these homes were devastated in recent floods. We share few photos: Food Aid For Syrian Refugees With reports of wretched conditions and children dying from malnutrition, CAI will shortly supply food grains […]
The terrible Boston Marathon bombing instantly gives me bad jitters; here we go. Again. Lunatics perhaps, probably from a Salafist country in the Middle East bringing their deviant loco beliefs of killings and mayhem so very close to home. Or, it could be homegrown extremists, who bloody know? But I pray hard nevertheless, wishing the […]
I love elderly people; they relate wonderful tales of yore. They are also mirrors, in whose eyes I see my reflection not too distant away; I am, after all, over the fifty hump and rapidly accelerating down. They can also be crabby and vicious at times, some of them. Take Mullah Mchungu for example, who […]
CAI Breaks Ground On Imam Sajjad (A) Medical Clinic, Afghanistan The hard winter freeze is finally thawing in Sacheck, Bamiyan Province so construction of donor funded Imam Sajjad (A) Medical Clinic has now begun alhamd’Allah. This facility will go a long way in alleviating the suffering of the sick, especially expecting mothers with difficult pregnancies […]
Tanzania in general, the people of Dar es Sallam, worldwide Khoja Shias, but especially the Dar es Salaam Khoja community is struck with terrible calamity on March 29 2013 when a sixteen floor building under construction adjacent to the Khoja mosque complex comes tumbling down like a deck of cards. Thirty-six people lose lives that […]
