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I have, this week, concluded 50 tons of CAI donor funded food distribution tour at the Somalia – Kenya border region, alhamd’Allah. This project was initiated and executed within 3 weeks after the decision was made to do something, anything, when images of dying and malnutritioned children appeared in the media. It was, for me, […]
I have, this week, concluded 50 tons of CAI donor funded food distribution tour at the Somalia – Kenya border region, alhamd’Allah. This project was initiated and executed within 3 weeks after the decision was made to do something, anything, when images of dying and malnutritioned children appeared in the media. It was, for me, […]
SOS Somalia – An Update: Alhamd’Allah, I have recently returned from delivering 50 tons of your donated food grains and high protein biscuits to the hapless, desperate people all along the Somali / Kenya border area. Please click here and here to read / view photos of complete report. CAI will spend remaining donated food […]
SOS Somalia: I am (as you read this), insha’Allah, on my way to Kenya / Somali border for food (adults) / nutrition biscuits (children) distribution worth US$75k to the starving populace there. Alhamd’Allah, our earlier appeal was well received, we raised close to US$75k; we have upped target to US$95k; additional US$20k (perhaps more?) to […]
Saika and Shahina Khan Saika and Shahina Khan were 5 and 3 (now aged 18 and 16) when their father was killed in a tragic accident. Their distraught mother of 3 children, with an infant son in addition to the girls, turned to Sakina Girls Home (SGH) in Andhari, Mumbai for help. Saika and […]
We are asked to report Kabul airport 5AM sharp; I intensely detest these early morning reporting times, especially in Afghanistan; but we have little choice. Fajr next day is at 3:05AM so I get perhaps 4 hours of restless sleep at Wasi’s hospitable home. Although Kabul can be freeing most winter months, summers are the […]
A customs officer, owner of a massive gut with shirt buttons struggling not to rupture stops me and asks. You shua you have nothing to declare, Sah? Yes, I’m shua Mheshimiwa, I respond, mimicking his accent. Poa, he says, sufficiently impressed, waves me through. I walk out to a much pleasant Dar es Sallam than […]
2011 Ramadhan Iftaar Fund – Final Appeal: Repeating our efforts of past 17 years, CAI is assisting in providing poor families with Iftaar support this coming blessed month of Ramadhan. Our reach will include feeding programs for the poor and destitute in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. We are US$32,000 short going into the […]
2011 Ramadhan Iftaar Fund: Repeating our efforts of past 17 years, CAI will insha’Allah assist in providing poor families with Iftaar support this coming blessed month of Ramadhan. Our reach will include feeding programs for the poor and destitute in the following Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka: We are US$40,000 short going into this […]
2011 Ramadhan Iftaar Fund: Repeating our efforts of past 17 years, CAI will insha’Allah assist in providing poor families with Iftaar support this coming blessed month of Ramadhan. I will personally supervise part distributions in Afghanistan and India, insha’Allah. Our reach will include feeding programs for the poor and destitute in the following countries: Afghanistan […]
