Celtic Quick News will be 10 years old next year and to mark the occasion, through Mary’s Meals, we’re going to construct a kitchen and shelter facility at the Kholoni Primary School in Mchinji, Central Malawi, which currently has no food preparation facilities.
A brick-built building, the kitchen will consist of one main cooking area with two small locked storerooms. In one, firewood for the stoves will be kept and, the other will store food and utensils. The kitchen will be fully equipped with stoves, pots, serving equipment, mugs and spoons and the 1221 children will be provided with a daily meal of a vitamin-enriched maize porridge. The kitchen will also have teaching facilities, to allow it to be used as a classroom outside meal times.
17% of people in the world live in extreme poverty (less than $1.25 per day) but there is plenty of good news, the proportion of world living in this condition halved in last 20 years (this was a UN Millennium Development Target). Life expectancy (at birth) of low income people in 1990 was 52, but in 2011 it was 60. Infant mortality dropped by a third during this period and maternal mortality almost halved.
Since humans first walked the earth a significant proportion of them have lived in extreme poverty, but while someone once said, “the poor will always be with us”, for the first time ever the decades ahead could see all of humanity escape from extremely poverty.
Malawi, according to the UN the 17th least developed nation on earth, is one of the world’s extreme poverty front lines, but even here, the trend is encouraging. In 1990 child mortality between 0-5 years was 244 deaths per 1000 live births. By 2000 this had dropped to 174 per 1000. Last year the figure was 71 deaths per 1000 from 0-5 years. The UK passed that figure more than 70 years ago, but the rate of improvement in Malawi is nothing short of incredible. It is fertile ground for the right kind of help.
Mary’s Meals, a Scottish charity established in 2002, feeds 822,142 kids in 16 countries every day. They keep costs low and employ local staff in kitchens, ensuring 93% of money donated reaches those in need, possibly the highest rate of any comparable organisation. It costs £7 for Mary’s Meals to feed a child in Malawi – for a whole year. 20% of Malawi’s children (600k) are fed by the organisation, often their only meal of the day.
In 2012, a sample of 44 schools found that enrolment had increased by 30% two years after the introduction of Mary’s Meals. Academic achievement improves too. The benefit is not just escape from hunger, it is access to education for children who would otherwise have to work for food. It also provides an increase in productivity and economic capacity when the children enter the workforce.
CQteN St Patrick’s Day Party
The kitchen will cost £7000 and I’ve told Mary’s Meals we’ll raise enough money by St Patrick’s Day, which gives us three months. We have a lot of work to do but the focal point will be the CQteN Dinner on Friday, 14 March 2014, which will be the biggest and best St Patrick’s Day Party in Scotland.
We’ve hired the Kerrydale Suite at Celtic Park. Tickets are available for £50, tables of 10 are also available. To reserve a ticket or table email me, celticquicknews@gmail.com. The event has been discussed in the comments section for some weeks without a formal launch and we quickly sold out the smaller capacity of the Kerrydale Suite. We have now taken the entire suite so additional tickets are available.
Between now and then there will be the odd auction to help us along, and we will continue to support the work of the Celtic Foundation (who have a Children’s Hospice Association Scotland auction on now), the Kano Foundation, and the many needy causes a lot closer to home than Malawi.
The UN are currently considering Development Targets for 2030, with the eradication of extreme poverty likely to feature. Poverty is a complex subject, so even after 2000 years development, we know there will always be comparative poverty, but within our Generation of Domination, extreme poverty, less than $1.25 per day existence, could be eradicated.
There is no more appropriate way to mark the 10th anniversary of the blog. This will be our payback for all the hours, days, weeks and months of pleasure (and toil) we’ve gotten out of the these pages over the years. Put 14th March 2014 in your diary, we’re having THE St Patrick’s Day party!
For more information on Mary’s Meals take a look at the video below:
Get your CQN Annual below. From now on £5 from every Annual sold will go to the CQN Malawi School Kitchen appeal.
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Hank ray – what exactly are we drawing a line under?
Love this gem from today’s report on sectarianism
On marches and parades, the working group said it recognised the right to political and cultural expression.
But it stressed: “No rights are absolute in themselves and they should always be enjoyed with regard to the impact they have on others.”
So no ban or curtailment on the most sectarian element in Scottish society, its “culture! they say when our is is being eroded piece by piece by legislation made up by bigots
Fixed odds time….lies, damned lies and statistics !
Everton at home to Fulham and have lost 2 out of 30 at Goodison.
Newcastle have a good home record v Southampton, losing 3 in 33. Newcastle are 13-10.
Leeds away to Doncaster. Leeds have lost 1 in 9 in this fixture and are 6-5.
Watford 4-6 have lost 1 in 15 at home to Sheffield Wed.
Sheffield Un, 13-10, have lost 1 in 15 in this fixture.
Falkirk at QOS. Falkirk have lost 1 in 15 h and a against the Doonhamers, and won 5 , drawn 1 in last 6 visits.
St Mirren undefeated in last 6 visits, last 5 being draws.
Think I will do a Yankee with Falkirk, Leeds, Aberdeen draw and Sheffield U and put a few quid on Henhousemanure at 9s.If that pulls then can get Mrs Shuggy new iron board from Santa ! Fingers crossed, HH.
Valentines Day…..
Fair play to you mate.
Can’t believe there are no Celtic fans capable of making you dislike them.Almost as if wearing the Hoops makes someone a decent citizen.
Have you ever met any of the Eastend gangsters and drug dealers that used to drink in the Hoops Bar?
I had the misfortune of going to school with some of these ‘loveable rogues’.
Thisistheone. How exactly would you protest against an unjust law. Sigh and shake your head. Just like the cowards that run celtic?
ernie lynch@17:20
“Here is a Celtic man talking about the reality.’
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Doesn’t address the real concern, namely the apparent lack of effort from the players in crucial games.”
ernie,
Can an apparent issue be a real concern?
If I have imagined it is it real?
Are you the 18th century Bishop of Cloyne?
Murdoch any links to the report on sectarianism. I have been out of the country?
St.Mirren are at Pittodrie.
Newcastle will be on a high after their first win at Old Trafford in 40 years and are 13-10 at home to Southampton. Shuggy Jr going by train to that game with his Celtic buddy.Hope they don’t break too many seats.
Nice and peaceful on here tonight then…
Lubo.
How do the G.B. plan to pay the 42,000 pounds they owe Celtic ? Bucketeering?
Perhaps their strangely silent big brothers in the Celtic trust will chip in.
Lubo
It’s early yet:-)
fergus slayed the blues – fully agree perhaps Paul could set up a Just Giving for readers of CQN who are unable to attend the event, then we could all give a little contribution.
Macjay.
They should have racially abused opposition players. It would have been cheaper.
Neganon 2 ………Our results in the group stages of the Champions League.
Amy and Nelson
God’s story is amazin’.
I think Roberto’s amazing tribute to philvisreturns is also amazing.
neganon2
19:36 on 13 December, 2013
Are you TD alter ego
NegAnon2
19:39 on
13 December, 2013
At the ballot box, given our board have no legislative powers.
HH
Not happy about the 666 on either side though.
T.H.M.
So,they do intend to pay their debt?
NegAnon2
Just this from the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-25363841
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
19:45 on 13 December, 2013
‘How do the G.B. plan to pay the 42,000 pounds they owe Celtic ?’
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They’re setting it off against the amount their activities have generated for the club over the last few seasons. Negotiations are ongoing.
I am paraphrasing (spelling?) but did that head sevco honcho heed bummer just say he would not have bought Tedmincetown House as they do not have the money just now to renovate it??? Are they that skint? I am sure there must be a few bhoys out there in the building game who could give them a reasonable price for it and renovate it. Maybe turn it into bedsits, that 5* hotel they kept going on about or an Irish cultural centre or something.
Apologies for the Amy and Nelson link, I didnae realise the symbolism, Honestly.
Blatant.
Uganda.csc
The club needs some leadership right now.
The support squabble amongst ourselves, whilst targeting all and sundry for our ills.
What I would say is appeasement never works, especially when our enemies attack us continually.
Seriously starting to think it could be detrimental to my liberty just for attending Celtic park these days.
NegAnon2
19:40 on 13 December, 2013
‘Murdoch any links to the report on sectarianism. I have been out of the country?’
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http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2013/12/6197/0
Turkeybhoy
18:52 on 13 December, 2013
I do not believe that I have “missed the point” at all. What was meant or not meant is beside the point. UEFA’s perception is the point and that is what counted.
Macjay.
I’m not an expert on the gb so have no idea. Just wish that they would be less offensive in uefa’s eyes.
Bit of casual racism in the style of kojo or tony Donnelly would have been better for the club.
ernie lynch
19:52 on
13 December, 2013
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
19:45 on 13 December, 2013
‘How do the G.B. plan to pay the 42,000 pounds they owe Celtic ?’
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They’re setting it off against the amount their activities have generated for the club over the last few seasons. Negotiations are ongoing.
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Which amount? Which activities?
Scotland’s denominational schools ‘do not cause sectarianism’
This headline induces a certain weariness.
It’s the wrong question, the wrong answer, the wrong everything…..
NegAnon2
19:20 on
13 December, 2013
I sense some panic at celtic
Now I have had a wee debate with you on here a while ago, it matters not a lot now. Your comments above rang true with my post of a couple of hours ago. Maybe we have a common feeling that there is trouble in the suits at our place.
I felt that the board allowed the GB second chance, the cynic in me believed it helped to sell the CL packages and the attendances up till now have been staying higher than I expected. The GB , again im mu opinion panicked after the mess at Fir Park, they knew it had got out of control and were already on a final warning.
What scared the board was the MSM reaction, they were aware that UEFA would be kept up to speed on this , hence their panic set in, mirroring the GB reaction. Firing off suspensions and relocations in a scatter gun manner did not look good.
Bad week all round , we need to refocus on the football also keep KC well away from the MSM, beating ourselves in the media is mannah for that lot.
Incidentally saw the Orcs main man on the telly tonight, he truly represents his peepul.
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It will be Christmas day on the 25th of December this year!!!!!!!
And, almost unbelievably!!! If you stand in a deep puddle while wearing shoes your feet are likely to get wet if the puddle is quite deep!!!!!!!!!!1
NegAnon2
“How exactly would you protest against an unjust law?”
How about: outside the Scottish Parliament?
If the Green Brigade have to cough up for the UEFA fine do they get to offset the cost of the banners as expenses ?
Just askin like as we used to say on here….
How do we balance the simple fact that – you’re more likely to be arrested at or after attending Celtic Park than any other in Scotland – any other in Scotland.
That is a big statement.
Than any other in Scotland.
It’s a shame that, in the midst of our clearest run of success and financial security, we look fit to rip ourselves apart – or worse, dissipate – it’s a shame, but if that’s where we are then that’s where we are. And without honest, open dialogue from the top down… We’re doomed – an anodyne, clean, commercially sellable (However unviable) team that buys only to sell or keep the likes of Boreiggter or Pukki…
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Macjay.
The celtic 125 Tifo generated positive publicity and cash for the club.
Neil Lennon presented the cup to the gb as a thank you.
But that’s me exhausted my limited knowledge on the subject.
The Honest Mistake loves being first
19:57 on
13 December, 2013
Kojo and Tony Donnelly?
Just an attempt to change the subject while casually insulting fellow posters.
We are in disarray as a club.
We need to get some perspective.
BBC news interviewed a family of Syrian refugees on the border
today who have been living in a shanty hut for over a year.
The interviewer asked the father what would he most like
and he said wood for my stove.
Evening all.
After a bit of help. A friend lost an eye to cancer, and the sight in his other eye is deteriorating to the extent he can no longer read. I’m after Celtic related audio books to get for him. I saw that Paul Larkin’s latest is coming out on audio in December, but wondered if there were any suggestions for others?
Thanks and Hail Hail.