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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After last week at fir park ,and Amsterdam ,Kev jungle has been shouting from the roof tops ,
that the present Celtic fans have been wearing their slipper’s, and they need to start the re wearing of their pit boots like they did in the jungle of the 80’s,and the re living the good old day’s of the jungle good old day’s .
Is this the future in which he is invision’s?
Margaret McGill
04:04 on
14 December, 2013
Maggie
The gringos enforced school sharing for different races in the fascist deep South.
The result 50 years later? Positive .
Why would integration of schools for those of different religions have a different result?
What has history told us?
Separate schools.Just like apartheid.And mixed religious marriage barriers.
Ethically no justification.
Move on.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
04:23 on 14 December, 2013
hmmm….ok…I think……..”gringos enforced”? Is that another way of saying “democracy prevailed” ??
We need to get away from this DNA thing…..
I had a DNA test done recently. My doctor said to me ” I have bad news. Your DNA is backwards”.
After an embarrassing silence i said
“And?”
Hey.
Good press.
Culcher change?
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/the-work-of-scottish-charity-mary-s-meals-1-3232413
I don’t know about the blog getting weaker
more divided maybe? but PJBhoys report of monteblancos message was first class
I used to enjoy reading james forrest and one or two others two, it would be good to see a few of them back on here more regularly, but there are always good posts and there have always been “scroll on by” posts too
Margaret McGill
04:30 on
14 December, 2013
J.F.K. and L.B.J….both elected democratically.
No matter.Decency before democracy?
AND? Paternity wassit?:-)
Surely not maternity.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
04:38 on 14 December, 2013
damn gringos !
No gringo test.
Failed!
Mag
“Tiene la cara de gringo.”
Mexican phrase which means : Increase the price !
Gringos are everyman.
God Bless America.
Actually,God help America.
In fact its worth a repost in full
monteblanco
22:17 on
13 December, 2013
Fitba from the bottom up
You learn to walk, you learn to kick a ball, you go out to play in the street with your pals, sometimes there’s no pals about so you find a wall. You join in at school or a boys team or at night in the park. You start to dream of playing in front of packed stadiums. You grow up and either continue to play or go and watch. Some make it at a half decent level or better. Most find being a supporter makes you just as involved. You travel to games, build a feeling of community and sense of belonging. You wear your heart on your sleeve with your colours round your neck. You suffer the defeats and revel in the success. You dream of winning leagues and going abroad to compete against the very best. You are willing to pay whatever it costs to be part of it all, to show the rest what you and your team are all about. Running along-side all of this are the organisers and sponsors, a vital part of the whole circus. They make it possible for events to happen, from maintaining the stadiums, funding facilities, wages and prizes. It can’t happen without them. They pitch their services at a price that makes it profitable. So far so good. All over the world football evolved in this way mixing sporting endeavour with community pride and utilising whatever the hell it is that makes us all addicted to the beautiful game.
That’s all you need for football to be the greatest game in the world, a few simple ingredients and a rule book with sporting integrity as a cornerstone, but that wasn’t enough for some.
Fitba from the top down
Fat middle aged men with spreadsheets and far too much money decide the best way to turn vast reserves of cash into even greater sums of obscenity. Speculate to accumulate means dangling a carrot and seeing how many folk are willing to take a bite of the cherry. (What? Fitba clichés are part of the game!) Fitba doesn’t start in your back garden anymore, as a toddler swinging a leg at fitba that comes up as high as your waist. Fitba starts in the boardrooms of Sky, Sony, Ford, Gazprom, FIFA, UEFA, etc, etc, etc. It starts by these fat men deciding what teams are the most profitable, marketable and sellable. The players come next, who will sell the most products, the most shirts. Concentrate these things into an elite band and you have yourself a cartel. Seeding comes next, make sure the super teams with superstars get to the business end of the tournament and the rest can scrabble about for scraps with hopeless dreams. Hopeless dreams, that is what is left for the peripheral teams who don’t get invited to the top table.
It is not about sport, it is about corporations abusing gullible supporters and milking cash, football and sporting competition come a long way back.
It is getting more and more blatant and what is worse it is being replicated at national level. The sad thing in this country is the amateur, shambling, vulgar and blatant way it is replicated in Scotland by a crowd of bowling club amateurs who can’t even hide their bias and bigotry.
People call for change on social media but the vast majority sit and swallow the agenda of these amateurs because it is fed to them daily by the big boys of Sky at European level and at home by hacks and bigots in the press who follow the agenda without thinking. Those who do call for action and change come to the conclusion that fans must stick together, unite and make it clear that we are the life blood of the game. By becoming one voice the administrators must surely sit up and take notice. So far these calls have been slow and torturous and bring nothing.
There is one group however who have been pro-active in highlighting the hypocrisy and corruption at national and European level in this country. They did come together, they did organise, they did protest, they did show the authorities up for what they were. The authorities turned on them, as did the press and eventually so did the PLC. This was as predictable as it was shameful.
What was not as predictable was the amount of fans who swallow the agenda and join in, hoodwinked and dazzled by a flawed, corrupt corporate dream and wanting Celtic to actually become even more soulless corporate machine, as long as we are at the top table.
The fans who turn on the Green Brigade have as much moral authority to pontificate about what is good for the game and the club as the sleaze balls and fat cats from the luxury villas and boardrooms from Hampden to Zurich or Nyon, Ford Gazprom and every morally corrupt global entity in between.
Man! That rant was like constipation, it’s been sitting deep in my bowels for about a week waiting to get released.
Big Nan
21:47 on
13 December, 2013
When you did your amazingly admirable “Daniel” act,perhaps you should have suggested that anyone with a vested interest in the proceedings would voluntarily exclude themselves from the deliberations.
That would have separated the wheat from the chaff.
Seriously.Bunnet doffed.
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macjay1 See http://www.tomminogue.com/blog7.php/petition-01491
Re declarations at this meeting
Top of the morning to you all from a still-dark Fife.
Lunch at the third test in Perth WA.
34 degrees apparently watching England bat in front of a full house.
Big Nan
04:57 on
14 December, 2013
Having worked my way thro` half of your submission,I must confess to feeling somewhat sheepish at having had the temerity to make the ” bleeding obvious ” suggestion to you.
You unquestionably have the matter at your fingertips and need no assistance from well meaning bystanders like me.
Go for it,pal.
monteblanco
22:17 on
13 December, 2013
There is one group however who have been pro-active in highlighting the hypocrisy and corruption at national and European level in this country. They did come together, they did organise, they did protest, they did show the authorities up for what they were. The authorities turned on them, as did the press and eventually so did the PLC. This was as predictable as it was shameful.
What was not as predictable was the amount of fans who swallow the agenda and join in, hoodwinked and dazzled by a flawed, corrupt corporate dream and wanting Celtic to actually become even more soulless corporate machine, as long as we are at the top table.
The fans who turn on the Green Brigade have as much moral authority to pontificate about what is good for the game and the club as the sleaze balls and fat cats from the luxury villas and boardrooms from Hampden to Zurich or Nyon, Ford Gazprom and every morally corrupt global entity in between.
Staggering arrogance.
What they lack in age they make up for with childish zeal.
G.B. The juvenile keepers of the Celtic flame………or the juvenile face of the lurking Celtic trust.The strangely silent Celtic trust.
What`s does all that have to do with Celtic?
FIFA and UEFA.Laundered from Parkhead by the G.B.
You think so?Delusions of relevance.
Why do I have to tolerate the agenda of the G.B.,the surrogates of the Celtic trust?
What has Bobby Sands got to do with Celtic?
They don`t give a damn about Celtic football Club.
Merely a means to their end.
They have their own agenda and they care nothing about the collateral damage which their unwanted activities produce.
G.B.bucketeers?Won`t be holding my breath.
Step in,the Celtic Board.
Wreckers are afoot.
John Hartson
NEIL LENNON spoke about how his team let him down in the Nou Camp.
But in no way is the dressing room is to blame for this season’s Champions League debacle.
That’s down to the Celtic board.
The club’s hierarchy to refused to give Lenny the funds to make a proper fist of it in Europe.
The men who insisted he take a gamble on his signings when he should’ve been buying guarantees.
My old team-mate doesn’t need me to defend him. But Lennon has he’s been let down so badly by the club’s money men when it comes to his transfer war chest.
A couple of million here or there just isn’t good enough.
Lennon lost three massive players from his squad in Victor Wanyama, Kelvin Wilson and Gary Hooper left during the summer, and he wasn’t given the cash to replace them.
Hooper, in particular, was someone who was always going to be a huge loss, but the club didn’t seem to realise his value. Teemu Pukki’s done nothing to suggest he can score 30 goals a season.
Amido Balde is another one who’s struggled since signing for the club in the summer.
And I don’t know what’s happened to Anthony Stokes in the last couple of months because he’s gone off the boil.
Lenny’s been forced to tinker with that area of his side week after week.
Board have to support Lenny with cash to spend
Kris Commons has been pushed forward at times. James Forrest and Georgios Samaras asked to move in from the flanks. All because there isn’t a top-class striker at the club.
The board and those in charge say they tried to get someone in, but they didn’t try hard enough. Losing 6-1 to Barcelona can happen to any team in the world. But I saw a Celtic team crying out for help.
There were only one or two players who performed on the night — Lennon named them — but the rest didn’t look interested.
And by the looks of things the manager stood on the touchline totally and utterly disgruntled with it all.
I’m no expert, but his body language spoke volumes.
I’ve heard it said he picked the wrong team, but I wonder if he named the players he did in an attempt to make a point. Pukki, Nir Biton and Derk Boerrigter all started when they didn’t deserve a run-out at the Nou Camp.
But I get the impression Lennon picked them, almost as though if to say ‘Look, this is what I have to work with’. Maybe I’m wrong and doing the manager him and his players a disservice.
Maybe he was hoping they’d be determined to show they could handle it on a big stage like that. The bottom line is that they weren’t good enough when it came to it.
Lennon may as well have picked a full team of kids for all the difference it would have made in the end.
Now all it all boils down to how much the club support their manager.
If they back him 100 per cent, they have to loosen the purse strings when he asks for his next signing budget.
Spending the odd million or two isn’t going to get them anywhere and they need to realise that — and realise it fast. I’m talking about them spending £5million or £6m. It’s not easy to attract players of that calibre because the Scottish Premiership isn’t exactly La Liga.
But Celtic still has a pull.
It’s still a massive club with big crowds every week and the prospect of regular European football is a carrot a lot of other clubs don’t have.
When I signed for Celtic I arrived to find top-class players waiting on me. But what’s there now?
The problem is that there’s isn’t the same quality at the club.
But Lennon can be a great salesman when he wants to be and I’m sure he could talk up Celtic up.
He could point to the major positives about moving to Glasgow. If he can’t do that — or isn’t allowed to because of limited spending power cash restraints — then then there are no guarantees for Celtic.
They only just scraped into the Champions League this season by coming back from the dead against a poor side from Kazakhstan. If they don’t invest in new players who’d be surprised if they failed completely next season?Rewards
That’s what Lennon will be saying to his board when he sits them down to go comb over the Champions League campaign.
That’s what he must stress. He must make it clear to them what’s at stake here.
Playing at the highest level in Europe brings huge rewards. Clubs earn fortunes with every point they pick up along the way.
I only hope Lenny’s paymasters recognise that and give him the financial backing he’s earned. I don’t think it’s too much to ask.
NEIL LENNON has revealed he’s felt like a LEPER since losing to Barcelona.
The Celtic boss is still hurting from his side’s 6-1 Nou Camp defeat.
But Lennon insists he doesn’t want sympathy from the people around him. He said: “People look at you, your family and friends, as though you’ve got a hump on your back.
“They give you a sympathetic, ‘You’re all right’ look, with a wee smile. You feel like you’re a leper, that you’re really ill or something like that.
“That’s natural, but the last thing you want is sympathy. I don’t need it, I’ve got a great job.
“We’ve been pretty successful. We’ve had a bad campaign, but it is where we are and we’ll look to build on that and progress and get better.
Buzz “Domestically we’ve done really well, but we’re just expected to do well domestically and everyone was looking to the Champions League for the buzz.
“Now that’s over, we have to create our own buzz again.”
Lennon spent yesterday morning at a board meeting as the Hoops hierarchy analysed their European campaign, with the club’s signing policy discussed. The major criticism from fans is that Lennon wasn’t given funds to sign the quality players he wanted.
But he said: “Would it have made a difference to us qualifying?
“If I had bought a £7million player and not tidied up other areas of the squad, would we have qualified? I don’t know.
“Would he have made us better? Possibly in the striking department, but we’re not in a position to spend £7m on a player and that’s the reality.
“Maybe we can spend £4m, but again, it’s about attracting the right one.”
Celts host Hibs today, with Lennon unsure what to expect from the disappointed Hoops fans.
He said: “I think there maybe will be a flatness and the Green Brigade won’t be there either.
“It’s up to the players to get the fans going.”
twists n turns
05:53 on
14 December, 2013
John Hartson
I`ve heard it said he picked the wrong team, but I wonder if he named the players he did in an attempt to make a point. Pukki, Nir Biton and Derk Boerrigter all started when they didn’t deserve a run-out at the Nou Camp.
Is that a suggestion that Lenny wanted to throw the game?
Ludicrous.
Macjay
I agree.
That was my own thought as I read it.
( good morning by the way)
Sandman 01-58
Astounded of forehead
You are one CFCs most resolute defenders….
CFC have big problems when guys like you feel as you do
Personally, I’ve had enough ….CFC plc can swivel for any further financial contribution from me …..then again I’m a self confessed malcontent
Twisty
Not sure about throwing the game
Perhaps just taking advantage of the platform to showcase the moderate talent he has been allowed to bring in
IMO ….it suggests to me that these players weren’t Lenny’s choices …rather players foisted upon him on a …them or nothing basis….
Then again …why do that then defend the transfer ” policy” in the press
Malaise
Listened to an interview with Neil last.
He seemed to admit that the transfer policy in the summer has not worked and funds will be available in January
‘ we need to get it right ‘ I think was his quote .
Reading from that ….. The board have done their usual in the summer, trying to do everything on the cheap. This year it has backfired and it has taken an embarrassing defeat to again force the suits into action.
It’s time the PLC backed NFL.
Too little to late again I’m afraid.
Shocking dismissal of Root
What is the point of the third umpire …if he’s going to ignore the techy evidence ..nonsense
Burghbhoy
Will the suits be forced into action …..seven clear in the league and out of Europe
As an aside …we were advised that some of the cash brought in in the summer would be used to sign up players on new improved long term contracts
Efe got a new one ….anyone else
PF
I’m off . Managed to post a nap….but thanks anyway.
Team for today
FF
Lustig,Charlie,VVD,Izzy
Matthews,Broonie,Biton,Sammi
Commons,…ANOther( strikers are so poor …ones as bad as the other)
pfayr
I do think the PLC will be forced into action this time.
I think even they can see that qualification for next years CL may be in the balance with the current squad.
Surely they can see the need to invest in January in quality and have the players assimilated before the qualifiers.
Burghbhoy
That would be a very sensible approach
Last window …we rushed out our best players and,with the exception of VVD, brought in crap …and trousered half the kitty
No much sense in that …..as has now been proved
My team for today.. Lustig goin for his op ? Was suggested barca be his last game for abit.
Forster
Fisher Ambrose Virgil Izzy
Biton
Brown Ledley Rogic
Pukki
Balde
Balde atajic and all shud get run out
twists n turns
06:10 on
14 December, 2013
Thank you.
Good morning to your goodself.
Suppose I really shouldn`t respond to M.S.M. poo……….however….
Good Morning Timland.
Back in the day Celtic would make some team suffer after
a bad result,so I for one are hoping that OUR sh#t manager
can fire up OUR sh#t players to put on a show that will please
OUR sh#t fans and keep OUR sh#t bored happy……if your
going wrap up well, the weather is going to be sh#t.
formistemporaryclassispermanentCSC.
macjay1 for neil lennon
06:05 on 14 December, 2013
Don’t think that was the inference that Hartson was drawing. As me and some mates sat and watched the game we came to the same conclusion. NL surely has learned the lesson from poor tactical and team selection for certain games, especially in Europe.
In my opinion NL put out a side to show the Board that these were the cards he has to play with. I disagree that by doing so he was out to throw the game, you could tell by his animations during the game he was trying to convey his feelings, what he wanted the Players to do,
Mulgrew should have started for Izzy and why oh why did Kris not start!
Truth of the matter old Father Time caught up with us on Wednesday.
Our objective for January and for next season’s qualifiers is to get a striker, a No. 10 that will compliment Kris and cover for Left Back.
You could argue you get what you pay for but you do not necessarily have to pay silly money in my opinion.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
Lads, for those who are in the CQN Saturday Naps competition, please go back and post today’s selection at the end of the previous article :
“Vanity tactics”
All the best, fleagle1888
Still the anti Celtic rants from the GB drum beaters who have no interest in the good name of my club, well your messenger has been shot, and your nameless faceless Fagens who sent kids to the Gallowgate to get kettled for there purpose and agenda better tred very carefully now, no more will you drag my clubs name through the mud with your left wing ultra ideas, NO politics, give me a good old banner with 7-1 on it or hail hail, or CELTIC. It’s about us CFC not the GB .
Assuming the perma injured (Kayal, Forrest & Rogic) are still out the team for today should be (in the 4-3-1-2 that’s been so good in last 2 domestic games)
—————–Forster——————-
Fisher Ambrose Van Dijk Izaguirre
——Brown Biton Henderson——–
—————–Commons—————
—————Atajic Stokes————-
Subs
Zaluska Mulgrew Matthews Pukki Boerrigter Balde Johnstone
tonydonnelly67
08:46 on 14 December, 2013
Did you see the Mandela banner at the Motherwell game?
What was your reaction when you saw it? Anger? Disgust? Shame? Embarrassment?
Lennybhoy…Supporting the DAM 5, Neil Lennon, Wee Oscar Knox, and CFC until I die
08:13 on 14 December, 2013
‘In my opinion NL put out a side to show the Board that these were the cards he has to play with.’
If that’s the case, and i don’t believe it is, he should be sacked.
Morning
For all the faults at our club, I am thankful every day we don’t have Sleekit Fat Sally managing our club.
Ernie
What if he actually thought that was the best team ,tactics,team shape etc …he could field to play Barca
Morning Tonydonnelly….
You carnaptious old bassa.
Have you got your ‘I Love The Board’ banner and vuvuzela ready for today?
You might need it to create an atmosphere in the absence of our Green Brigade.
UTLR