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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 […]
Me-n-rai / Bo-e / Verrry, Verrry Bad Liberia is where fellow CAI Trustee Sohail Abdullah, TRS CEO Shaida Hussein Bhayani, and I are headed next in our quest to bring quality education to impoverished communities – worldwide. I would categorize Haiti and Liberia as the toughest countries I have visited in my lifetime. They are […]
Killer Summer Heat – Iraq In summer, Iraq faces some of the most punishing and dangerous heat and the poor suffer unbearable pain. Many infirm and very young do not survive with very little available power due to constant power cuts. CAI was able to provide 230 cooling units to very vulnerable poor families, giving […]
A New School – Zimbabwe A possible CAI donor-sponsored new school will soon be coming up in the remote village of Choana, Zimbabwe. This school will educate about 300 students who currently walk between 5 to 12 kilometers to and from school, rendering their learning abilities almost useless. This will be CAI’s 85th global learning […]
Zimbabwe Air Tanzania is very good at reminding me of their flight delays, so good, they send me several emails stating the same thing. Their flight TC2122 to Harare, Zimbabwe, scheduled to depart at 11:00, will now take off at 16:00. Bummer. Then, their system gets confused and sends another email saying the flight is […]
Kigoma School Update – In Photos The Mwakezega Elementary School in the remote village of Mwakezega is now under construction. This will be one of CAI’s donor-supported 85th worldwide schools, bringing quality education to those most in need of it, in a modern setting. A very proud donor/CAI undertaking. Sharing a few photos of the […]
