Blankets Drive | Winter 2024
Afghanistan, Syria, parts of Pakistan, and India experience severe winters, especially in remote areas. Sadly, many impoverished, old, infirm, and very young do not see the light of day as they succumb to hypothermia. This tragedy is avoidable with a contribution of US$32 per person. A thick, sturdy blanket will provide lifesaving warmth to an infirm, old individual, a widow, and her child.
This winter, Comfort Aid International will distribute lifesaving blankets to new recipients in different remote areas of Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen.
The goal is to distribute about 7,700 blankets in these countries at approximately US$248,000. To take advantage of the lower prices, we must commit to purchasing these blankets now, as the prices will increase by 25% in December.
Please pledge or donate [select Disaster/Blankets] to sponsor one or more blankets to help save a life!
Al Mahdi Elementary School Opening Ceremony | Mwakezega, Kigoma, Tanzania
CAI’s 24th school in Mwakezega, Al Mahdi School, had its opening ceremony on September 21, 2024. This school is only accessible by an off-road vehicle, about 50 km from the town center in Kigoma, Tanzania. Given its remote location, it offers boarding facilities for students and teachers, classrooms, computer and science labs, administrative offices, toilets, and a deep water well already in operation, serving the local community with much-needed potable water.
Three hundred fifty students will gain quality secular education when the new school year begins in January 2025. The aim is to start with elementary facilities, with plans to build a secondary school and beyond.
Rohingya School for Orphans | Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
On the perimeter of the expansive, densely populated Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, ‘home’ to about one million refugees, 120 orphan students are provided quality, secular education at the Balukhali Primary School, with meals for breakfast and lunch before heading back to their deplorable living quarters. Distribution of soap, shampoo, washing powder, and coconut oil helps our students keep clean in unimaginably sludgy surroundings and offers much-needed relief.
These children have been supported by Comfort Aid International donors since 2017, having escaped unimaginable persecution and atrocities by the Burmese army.
CAI has also built multiple deep-water wells with distribution channels to provide about 40,000 refugees with potable water daily.
Fundraising for these projects annually is $120,000, generously contributed by CAI donors.
