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CAI Must Mobilize For Ramadhan Iftaar It’s the month of Rajab and CAI must mobilize for the annual Ramadhan iftaar feeding to the worldwide poor and destitute – for the 24th successive year, alham’Allah. The goal is to provide basic supplemental iftaar needs of 14,000 poor families in 18 countries – Afghanistan, Rohingyas refugees in…

CAI Donates Hospital Equipment To Wete, Pemba CAI donors donated critical equipment worth Tanzanian Shillings 12,000,000 (about US$5,200) to a poor hospital lacking them in Wete, Pemba. Sharing few photos: Lives Saved By CAI Donors Due to the saline nature of water in Afghanistan, and potable water is a financial challenge, the poor suffer and…

Food And Powder Milk Aid To Yemen Continues Donors of CAI continue the lifeline support to the desperate food situation in Yemen with monthly aid of food and powder milk for infants. Sharing the most recent aid distribution photos: Daily Milk For CAI Orphans All 770 plus global CAI donor-supported orphans get all their basic…

CAI Donors To Adopt 140 Orphans In Uganda CAI donors are to adopt 140 orphans living in squalid conditions in two centers of remote Uganda, in Senene and Tamasaka. These two centers will be refurbished with hygienic sleeping / living quarters, healthy food, decent clothing, reconstruction of their dilapidated classrooms, and desks to sit on.…

CAI Donors Gifts To Chimba School 3 new classrooms, a newly constructed toilet block and 60 new desks were gifted to this school in a poor locality of Pemba island in Tanzania. These 500 plus children who had dilapidated toilets, sat slouched in crowded dirt floors will now have some comfort seeking an education. Read…

CAI Welcomes 50 Additional Yemen Orphans 50 more poor internally displaced orphans were welcomed into the Sakina Home in Sana’a, Yemen recently. These orphans can now be assured of all life’s necessities including quality education at probably the only operation school in the destroyed city. CAI Donor Lifesaver Food Aid To Yemen Continues Critical life-saving…

Critical Winter CAI Aid For Yemen CAI is in the process of distributing one thousand thick warm blankets to internally displaced refugees in Yemen, affording the most vulnerable a little comfort against a chilly winter that can grip the country. Sharing some distribution photos: Poor Schools In Tanzania Get Desks 120 desks sitting 3 each…

2020 Winter lifesaving blankets for Afghanistan / Yemen The goal is within reach. Please consider donating a blanket or more to ensure a homeless or destitute widow with children will sleep in relative comfort this winter. These very thick (5 kilos each covering an adult and a child in comfort) cost US$25 each, and are…

CAI Opens 50th Global School When Comfort Aid International began the construction of donor schools in the poorest and remotest parts of the world, I prayed really hard to Allah to let us complete at least 25 before I died. Allah smiled and said no way! I will make it at least 50, Yusufali! Please…

2020 Lifesaver Blanket Drive   Sugarcane Project In Kenya Pays Dividends CAI donors sponsored the lease of 10 acres of agriculture land for a poor village in Busia, Kenya. The villagers pitched in to clear the land and plant sugarcane which can easily be marketed to nearby sugar mills when ready. In the time it…

CAI Worldwide Orphans Back In School After a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CAI worldwide orphans (except India where the shutdown continues) are now back to school, albeit with stringent protection in place. Sharing some photos:   Yemen: Afghanistan: Rohingya orphans in Bangladesh: The Plight of the Rohingyas The plight of the Rohingyas…

Water For Rohingya Refugees - Help Needed I bring your attention to the CAI water projects for 39,000 Rohingya refugees rotting in squalor camps outside Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh.   Two deepwater wells, two massive pumps, 28 massive storage tanks, and a network of distribution pipes bring pure potable drinking and daily-use water to these hapless people 24×7,…

Sindh, Pakistan Floods – CAI Donors Send Food/Water Aid Unprecedented rains in Pakistan have left thousands in people in Sindh homeless and hungry, especially the poor. Karachi has been especially hard hit, crippling the city. CAI has teamed up with Hussaini Foundation to feed 1,400 families essential rations worth Rs.2,500 each. The initial target amount…

CAI Plans To Expand Yemen Orphan Care To 200 As you may already know, CAI supports 100 poor orphans in Yemen, 50 girls/50 boys. These orphans are part of the 660 worldwide poor orphans CAI supports, providing them a life of decency and dignity. This includes quality education, which is the cornerstone of their upkeep. Yemen has…

Aid To Beirut – Lebanon CAI donors reacted to the tragedy in Beirut, Lebanon, and aid was on its way within three days, bringing hard to source food and medical supplies to the victims of the blast. CAI is still short of funds for this project so please help if you can. Sharing a few…

Disaster In Beirut, Lebanon – Urgent SOS With Beirut declared as a disaster-stricken city, the massive blast earlier on August 5 has caused widespread damage leaving over 150 people dead, nearly 4,000 injured and 300,000 homeless. These numbers will undoubtedly be higher once the chaos subsides. CAI has committed to help with an immediate need…

Qurbaani Note: CAI is not accepting qurbaani requests for Africa and India anymore; all others still available until July 28, 2020. Aid To Displaced Afghan Refugees: About 300 families (3,000 people) were recently forced out of their village near Belkhab in Sarepole District of Afghanistan and fled to Mazaar Shereef for safety. They now literally…

Qurbani Rates Please donate at www.comfortaid.org – Donate – Food Aid – Qurbani

Food / Medical Aid For COVID-19 Victims In Yemen Yemen was already in terrible shape with dire war and violence conditions, now made worse by COVID-19. There is a disaster brewing and CAI is mobilizing to help with medical aid, in addition to the existing food / milk-powder-for-infants that is already in place. Urgently needed…

CAI Feeding/Medical Program For COVID-19 Worldwide Victims Continue – Lebanon/Afghanistan/Yemen In The Spotlight CAI donors are continuing the feeding programs for daily wage earners who are in lockdown confinement, unable to work, and whose families are going hungry. Food aid to over 12 countries continues, especially in Lebanon, Yemen, and Afghanistan. CAI has received distressing…

Eid Gifts For Orphans: 300 out of the 660 orphans under CAI care received gifts from donors making their Eid day a happy one in the midst of so much pain. The other 360 will insha’Allah receive their gift after the lock down in their locations ends soon insha’Allah. Sharing a few photos. Zanzibar Water…

Zakat Fitra CAI will insha’Allah facilitate the distribution of Zakat Fitra to the poor and destitute in several countries on Eid-el-Fitr. The countries covered will be determined later, depending on how much is collected. At this time, it will be in Afghanistan, India, Iraq and Yemen. The rate depends on every individuals common meals; CAI…