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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I hear there is a march today in support of the Green Brigade.
Tonydonnely you are propping up sectarianism in Scotland. Appeasement doesn’t work. The litany in crimes that celtic have now perpetrated against its own support is utterly shameful.
….PFayr supports WeeOscar
08:57 on 14 December, 2013
Ernie
‘What if he actually thought that was the best team ,tactics,team shape etc …he could field to play Barca’
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I wouldn’t sack him for an error of judgement.
To the pant-wetters and hissy fit throwers on here who say they have chucked their season tickets in a drawer and aren’t going back, I say this: good riddance to you. The rest of us will get on with supporting Celtic through thick and thin, as we have always done; boy to man, girl to woman.
You won’t be missed, certainly not by me. I’d much rather attend a game with 25,000 – 30,000 real Celtic ‘supporters’ (the clue is in the name) than be in a crowed swelled by miserable, negative malcontents and glory hunters who bitch and moan at every opportunity. They’re the ones who poison the atmosphere at games.
Enjoy IKEA lads. I’ll be in my usual seat in 103 today enjoying the football and the company of my mates who suffered with me through the long. dark days of the 90s when it seemed at times we were destined to live in the shadow of the orcs for ever.
We’ve just competed in the champions league again and we’ll hopefully be there next season with some lessons learned and ready to have a better tilt at it.
The board are not perfect, our young manager is not perfect and our young team is not perfect. I can live with that. They give their all in the jobs they do and I trust them to get a lot more right than they get wrong. I see much to be optimistic about.
Celtic is for life, not just for the days of plenty. If you don’t get that then you don’t really understand the concept of faithful through and through.
To those who are going today us usual, I say let’s get right behind the team from the off. They need us today more than ever.
Hail Hail
Ryecatcher
I only caught your last post this morning
Re PMcB …only outside legal circles was he considered any kind of exceptional legal brain
He was , however, a clever, tenacious and excellent trial lawyer
And whatever you may think of his dealings with the Act …he was the only person ( all CFC custodians inc) who had a proper go at the SFA ….for that I’ll always be grateful
Re Scots Law ..we’ll have to differ on opinion …. I don’t know how much personal experience you have on the subject tho
Ernie
How many times would you accept such error ?
Lennybhoy…Supporting the DAM 5, Neil Lennon, Wee Oscar Knox, and CFC until I die
08:13 on
14 December, 2013
Thank you.
What bothered me was simply the suggestion that Lenny chose his starting line-up with a view to making a point to the Board.
I was making no criticism of Lenny`s selection. How would I or could they know the condition of players?
Case in point: ” Why is Rogic not ” getting a chance?”
I read recently that he was recovering from a groin strain.
Punter`s picks. Ye cannae trust them.
iPaddy McCourt Supports Wee Oscar
09:07 on 14 December, 2013
‘The board are not perfect, our young manager is not perfect and our young team is not perfect. I can live with that. They give their all in the jobs they do’
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It’s getting close to Christmas and Santa doesn’t like it when people tell fibs, so if you don’t get what you’d hoped for on the big day, you’ve only got yourself to blame for coming out with that whopper.
The report on sectarianism is one of the most sinister documents I have ever read. It essentially calls for witchunts.
I paddy you are also propping up sectarianism in Scotland.
Morning all. Very, very wild, windy and wet down here. If i’s as bad in Glasgow, can see the game being postponed. No ferry operating as far as I can see. No road traffic braving things either.
If we do play today, I hope we play as we have been doing recently and win by the ole 5-0.
Paul McBride
Q.C. age 36 ,one of the youngest in Britain.
Not bad.
R.I.P.Paul.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McBride
Neganon2 Ryecatcher Ernie lynch
So we are all doomed,? Armageddon,?ship sinking,? all is lost,? We will never see the likes again? Crowds will go down to 20,000? We have to have a bobby Sands banner? It’s the SNP? It’s the SFA? It’s CO? It’s the Celtic board? It’s PL? Lennon is a Lawwell puppet? My good Groundhog Day AGAIN.
today is naother day in the long history of our club. An important game against a pumped up Hibees is the perfect way to get back in the groove.
Seven days ago , that`s right a whole seven, we were drooling at how we gubbed the Lanarkshire Orcs.
Get behind the team, to all the petted lips out there….I wish I was going today. There is a great incentive to go the whole season unbeated in the League , if and it`s a big if, we get to game number 26/27 then the crowds will be up for that.
The recent love in on the media about The Orcs 100% start , especially Sky Sports , is pathetic. I speak to guys down south who have no idea that they are playing postmen,plumbers and students every week. Their PR department must be passing out a lot of Xmas bottles this year.
Anyway , onto today , I see that Bobby Madman is the ref, so look out for more McLean type nonsense. ‘MON THE HOOPS!
It’s ok Ernie, all my Christmases came early when Rangers died. Mabye Santa could bring you a voucher for head transplant surgery.
Troll on meantime
a few typo’s there….off to get the glasses on.
Paddy Gallagher
09:04 on
14 December, 2013
I hear there is a march today in support of the Green Brigade.
Hope there will be a whip round to repay the 42,000 pounds they owe my team,Celtic.
ipaddy 09.07 Good man and well said! HH
iPaddy McCourt,
I’m basically in your court. I well remember the days (long before the 90s) when it was a halftime pastime in the Jungle to discuss what the Club would announce the attendance would be. Most reckoned it would be anything from 10 to 15,000 less than it actually was, for tax reasons you understand. We were going nowhere then but there were still a support of roughly 30,000. Supporters who were there, as now, because they love the Celtic.Thankfully most I know are simply that: supporters. No conditions.
I remember leaving ibrokes after the LC final defeat to
Raith Rovers and thinking surely this is the bottom of
the barrel,apparently not if some of the PPP on here
are anything to go by…….ffs lighten up.
iPaddy McCourt Supports Wee Oscar
09:20 on 14 December, 2013
You truly believe the players gave their all against Barcelona?
If you do, you know nothing about football, for all the years you’ve spent watching it.
Neganon
Enjoy IKEA
pfayr- was the Root dismissal as bad as the Broad decision in the summer?
KarmaCSC
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD
Only problem with that is the final result-saved from administration at the eleventh hour.
I paddy McCourt
Well said that man, now THATS A CELTIC SUPPORTERS POST,
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
I wasn’t offering them support or decrying them bud – just mentioning that there is a march, which I am led to believe has not been organised by the GB.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
09:21 on 14 December, 2013
‘Hope there will be a whip round to repay the 42,000 pounds they owe my team,Celtic.’
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Given that the team didn’t show up in Barcelona it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if they offered to pay the fine themselves, by way of apology and atonement..
Macjay,
The same PMCB who was largely responsible for the Offensive Behaviour Bill?
Ernie lynch
Lol, now it’s the players, your comedy has no boundaries sir, are you hear all weekend?
Ryecatcher
I think I get you, it’s initials you don’t like right?
tonydonnelly67
09:20 on 14 December, 2013
I said before the game that it was a meaningless fixture and was criticised for it.
I said after the game it was a meaningless fixture.
I also said it wasn’t as bad a defeat as losing the league at Inverness or Fir Park.
And it wasn’t as embarrassing as being beaten by Clyde.
And that’s only in the last few years.
What was disappointing and unacceptable was the lack of fight from the players, not the scoreline.
You’ve not responded regarding your reaction to seeing the Mandela banner at Fir Park.
‘In my opinion NL put out a side to show the Board that these were the cards he has to play with.’
What? The Board don`t are not aware of who plays for Celtic? As many people opine that The Board are the ones who do the buying, this would be rather strange. More likely just wrong.
JJ
ryecatcher
09:30 on 14 December, 2013
‘Macjay,
The same PMCB who was largely responsible for the Offensive Behaviour Bill?’
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I don’t think he was. I think the SNP government get the credit for that.
He was a cheerleader for it though, and made a fool of himself in the process.
Remember his recollection of hearing Hibs fans singing songs in support of the IRA? Remember him saying that people should be prosecuted for using the term ‘hun’ because it was intended to be offensive? This from a man who described his former political colleagues in the Tory part as ‘dysfunctional morons’?
Good morning friends from an unexpectedly dry but pretty windy EK. Grey clouds in the distance appear to be heading this way.
ernie:
“You truly believe the players gave their all against Barcelona?
If you do, you know nothing about football, for all the years you’ve spent watching it.”
It`s OK for Neil to make an error of judgement but not iPaddy McCourt?
JJ
Ernie lynch
I care as much about the Mandela banner as I do about the Bobby Sands one, I care not a jot about world politics when I go to Celtic park, what part of this do you not get? I am a died in the wool Celtic supporter plain and simple, if I was into Bobby Sands I would be in Belfast but I’m not so I am not, Nelson Mandela same thing couldent care less, sorry to the family’s for there loss yes, but other than that, Celtic are all I care about, no politics, daft students acting up, and young Ned’s dragging my clubs name through the mud, I’ve had enough of it, and so have the majority find another pulpit for your Mandela and Sands agenda, I’m not interested, HH
UEFA.
Their competition , their rules . Join their club and you are their pawn.Take their money and you do what they tell you do or else.
Clientism.and mental slavery..The Breakfast of Champions. Top table, top table.
A tool in the machine. A cog in the machine.. Consumed by what you consume…
Sunny,/16 degrees at 10.30 am.-way down south.
Good performance and victory required today.
Tom/I Paddy
Ghuys, I get what you are saying and like you I would under no circumstances desert the team.
Having said that , I still reserve the right to criticise the Plc board who in my opinion at all times sell us short.
If Celts for change didn’t question the old board where would we be now.
It is time for the suits to stand up for us now.
Whatever, I’m sure all supporters are united behind the team and all love the club…… Just differently.
Hail Hail