Comfort Aid International

CAI Newsletter – Nov 2021 – A

1st CAI Sponsored Hydrophiles & Spina Bifida Camp It was a painful day for 25 infants from poor families who received live-saving surgery to treat hydrophiles & spina bifida, sponsored by CAI donors. This easily preventable ailment affects deprived families with poor nutrition and is devastating for newborn babies. This life-saving procedure costs only US$200 […]

CAI Newsletter – Oct 2021 – B

CAI Donor Schools Update CAI has constructed and renovated 65 schools in deprived communities worldwide, providing poor children an opportunity at quality education – and the process continues. The latest is a massive school/orphanage project in Zanzibar for 500 children, including a home for 50 orphaned girls. Imagine, 65 schools educating an average of 500 […]

CAI Newsletter – Oct 2021 – A

Encouraging News From Afghanistan The US Treasury Department has issued a general license for US based NGOs to continue operation in Afghanistan, offering humanitarian assistance to the poor and marginalized. Alhamd’Allah. CAI has resumed complete operations as of October 2. This includes the CPES school, the SGH and ZBH safehouses for 150 orphans, the 6 […]

CAI Newsletter – Sept 2021 – B

Housing Kabul The housing for homeless widows in Kabul was abruptly stopped when the legal administration of Afghanistan changed. Out of the current batch of 55 homes, 40 have been completed and handed over, the balance homes are in various stages of construction. Sharing a few photos. Yemen Vaccines Update The vaccination of 14,000 vulnerable […]

CAI Newsletter – Aug 2021 – B

Daily Life At CAI Sakina Home – Sa’naa, Yemen A glance at the daily lives of 150 orphans whom CAI donors support. They come to the specially made school for them, have breakfast, attend classes, perform extracurricular activities, play, drink milk, do their assignment, eat a late healthy lunch and return home to their guardians, […]

Afghanistan – A CAI Operation Update

Salaam The speed at which the security situation in Afghanistan has/is deteriorating is both breathtaking and heartbreaking. Fourteen years of very hard work in painstakingly building a cohesive infrastructure of humanitarian projects now suddenly seem to unhinge. Never in my wildest imagination did I for a second envisage the country falling to the Taliban, certainly […]

CAI Newsletter – Jul 2021 – C

Emergency Food Aid – Afghanistan CAI is eying the recent developments in Afghanistan with increasing anxiety and dread. With six remote medical clinics providing a lifeline to the sick, the care of 150 orphans, and other extensive humanitarian services for the poor, there is so much to lose if the violence goes out of control. […]