 In 2011, the organization began working in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, in eastern Tajikistan.CAI also completed various projects in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan in the 1990s.The organization's efforts are detailed on the CAI Master Project List, and the story of how CAI was founded is outlined in the 2006 "New York Times" best-selling book "Three Cups of Tea" by Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.