Creating Opportunities | Making the Impossible, Possible!
The weather in Dar es Salaam is heating up as ‘summer’ takes a firm grip. We’ll soon have the best mangoes, pineapples, and the finest cashews outside heaven to enjoy. In my past Blogs, I’ve alluded to the filthy beggar who sits, but most times lies prone on the concrete floor opposite the building I […]
Winter Blankets – Save Lives The bitter cold of winter is not too far off. Harsh winters in the remote places that CAI serves bring discomfort, misery, and even death to the poor and vulnerable. We are mobilizing to distribute thick, warm blankets to families, especially single women with children in remote parts of Afghanistan, […]
I hear someone call out my name from the crowds behind me on the streets of Dar es Salaam, near DT Roundabout, so I stop to see who it is. A heavyset Bohri man with his trademark cap and an unkempt flowing beard hurries to me, breathing with difficulty, and offers a handshake. Hands and […]
Winter Blankets – Save Lives The bitter cold of winter is not too far off. Harsh winters in the remote places that CAI serves bring discomfort, misery, and even death to the poor and vulnerable. We are mobilizing to distribute thick, warm blankets to families, especially single women with children in remote parts of Afghanistan, […]
A Dinner Of Tripes In Dongri Dongri lies to the south of Mumbai, India. It is probably one of the most densely populated places on our earth. Its residents are mainly Muslim, with a sprinkling of Hindu communities. These occupants are made of many Muslim denominations, all with their cultural identities. And quirks. But the […]
Water For The Rohingya Refugees Rohingya refugees are the most persecuted people on earth. Amongst the despair and squalor at the Bakukhali, Ukhiya camp outside Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh where close to a million of them languish without any hope of freedom, CAI donors are providing 40,000 of these hapless people potable water for the […]
The Emirates flight from Dubai to Baghdad lands forty minutes earlier than the scheduled time so Abdulkareem, my larger-than-life host in Iraq is still on the way driving from Najaf. The wait for my visa on arrival to be processed takes almost an hour. Sitting in a crowded hall that is cooled by an antiquated […]
CAI Sponsored School In Kigoma, Tanzania – Photo Update CAI Sponsored School For Orphans, Syria – Photo Update Delay! The publication of my Novel, Two Blue Gold And Diamond Earrings in support of CAI’s 950 orphan’s education and care worldwide will be delayed by a month or so. I apologize to all of the donors who […]
Qabiltu! A strange event occurs during Friday’s Jooma prayers at the Dar es Salaam Khoja mosque. It is a national holiday, Saba-Saba, plus Eid day of Ghadeer, and people are happy. Between Jooma salaat and Asr, the respected and highly esteemed resident aalim, Adil Raza, gets up, asks the congregation to hold his neighbor’s hand, […]
CT Scan For Haidari Blood Bank – Parachinar, Pakistan This hospital has come a long way from being a simple blood bank for the hapless community caught up in the violence of the area. CAI donors have aided the hospital with a host of treatment equipment and the addition of an entire floor. CAI donors […]
