Food Crises in Ethopia, Sakina Girls Home, Imam Hussein School Food Crises in Dhanaan, Ethiopia: You may have heard of or know about the deepening water and food crises in the Horn of Africa. Thousands on Muslims are starving; and the UN have actually cut food aid supplies to the area due to the worldwide […]

Your Sadeqa Funds Planes, Trains, Automobiles … I had the good fortune to make a speedy, brief visit to Machipatnam, Vijaywada and Alinaqipalam in Andra Pradesh last week; 75 minute flight to Hyderabaad, a 7 hour train ride to Machipatnam, 5 hours by car to Vijaywada and Alinaqipalam, another 7 hours by train to Hyderabaad […]

It Rained Bombs In Kabul Please click here to ready my (hopefully) interesting trip into Afghanistan right in the middle of her presidential elections. Please click here to view the photo gallery of this trip. New Trustees for CAI: I am happy to welcome Imran Abdullah of Houston, TX and Abbas Jaffer of New York as new Trustees […]

Kargil Medical Trip Report, August 2009 A Personal Note: With the onset of this very blessed month, I greet you and wish you a very blessed and fruitful Ramadhan, full of Allah’s blessings, forgiveness and mercy. Allah (S) has virtually guaranteed us forgiveness this month; we have only to open up and ask Him for […]

Medical Appeal I am on my way to Afghanistan at the moment but wanted your urgent assistance regarding the following 2 life / death medical cases from Kargil where CAI just concluded a very successful medical camp (report and photos out in very near future). 1. Kaniz Fatemah is 7, hails from Lankarchey District in […]

Succession I feel it very important I communicate the subject of succession of CAI operations if something were to happen to me. It is redundant to state that I am a mere mortal, but I’ll state it nevertheless; I AM! There are a number of things that can happen; I could be killed in an […]

It Rained Bombs in Kabul Indian Airline flight IA844 to Kabul is bang on time, a miracle of sorts and we troupe to another half hearted security check before we board a bus that takes us to the aircraft. The flight is only about quarter full; due perhaps to increased security concerns of upcoming presidential […]

Ramadhan Iftaar Appeal – Update I was praying real hard we could, through some miracle, not deny food grains already allocated to the poor and destitute this Ramadhan. Alas, this is not the case and we have to be pragmatic and make the hard choices. We have cut the number of families we will assist […]

Ramadhan Iftaar Appeal – Update As you can gather from the indicator, this years Iftaar fund-raising is in serious, serious trouble; a striking departure from yesteryear’s. I will have some very hard choices to make in the next week to 10 days, either reducing the quantity or number of families we give to, both heart […]

Afghanistan Project Inauguration – In Video As promised, here is the video clip of all CAI projects we inaugurated or initiated during our trip to Afghanistan earlier this month. It is about 30 minutes long but very informative, so I urge you to invest this time and view it. There is no commentary so you […]