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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Mullet if you believe that sectarianism in scotland is a thing of the past you are deluding yyourself. The last few years have been amongst the most sinister yet.
I going to say it again supporting this board is supporting the prejudice a good against our minority.
Td67 just because you are an intellectual pygmy dont expect the rest of us to be.
Antipodean red im in the airport on the way to oz. Looking forward to catching up with you annd of course the cricket. I hear my big bro phoned you? Hilarious!
How much did we pay for Pukki?
Burghbhoy,
A morally repugnant Catholic Church is surely not an argument with no basis in fact? Years and years of serial abuse of the very people it was supposed to look after. Mental, sexual, physical, abuse. Undeniable. Abuse that they thought could be wiped away by moving the abusers. Add to that the billions of pounds that the Vatican sits on and you have a perfectly corrupt institution. It could not be more corrupt.
Please do not equate me with the Follow Follow brigade. It is an unhappy coincidence that folk with no moral compass can point the finger of blame.
This is not a personal attack taken out of the blue in isolation. I am a Catholic or at least I believe in the basic elements of what I truely believe the Church to be about.
Under an hour and half, till I head for the Celtic supporters bus, where we have freedom of speech, and will enjoy a good debate.
I really despair, that some on here would be happy to see our crowds/ following continue to diminish.
I am neither for or against our board, in fact have respect for a lot they do, but
Their actions are switching a lot of good Celtic fans off, with the risk of losing many thousands fans or pounds, however you want to look at it.
Right 4 – 0 the day in the old predictor
So
COYBIG & White today :-)
Hail Hail
Jimmyquinnsbits
When an appeal is heard against the severity of the sentence but the sentence is increased …thereby leaving the appellant with a sentence more severe than the one he appealed
Brogan the display by the GB was football related. It was a proyeat agaonst the OB at footbal act. Im sorry bit iys lazy joirnalism to claim otherwise.
Pfayr,
Ok… Thanks
NegAnon2, If you think the last few years have been the most sinister yet you again must forget about the previous couple of hundred years.
No Irish here
What school did you go to?
Over qualified apprentices turned away from jobs
Men refused promotion
I know of no one who is precluded from any sort of employment in Scotland.
A comedy legal bill to address a perceived problem is not an attack on Catholics. It is a lack of basic intellligence amongst Scottish MSPs and local do gooders that is at falt.
If they want to change the local agenda then give people jobs and some hope lets not … release a piece of un en forceable law that jams the courts to please the generaly unenlightened populice.
Greenock Born Billionaire Bus Burners companies made a nett profit / EBITDA of 450k last year.
Betcha Fat Salary can’t wait to get his hands on their investments in the January window,ey?
We might see players of the calibre of Billy Urquhart and Davie Mitchell playing at Ibrokes soon.
Well it looks like the rain gear is on today, it’s chucking it doon, and on for the day. Slick passing today.
Tony Donnelly are you calling my wife a ‘where’?
Lol
goldstar10
11:45 on
14 December, 2013
paddy gallagher- Joe Joe super Joe?
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Eh? No!
Pf. Think we paid for pukki between 2.6 and 2.9m for a 500k failure project from Shalke. Maybe we should sell Balde for 4m to some stupid club who had a john park type person as a scout
Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me, Celtic, Celtic on to victory, They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree, We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the scottish football league.
They come from bonnie Scotland, they come from county Cork, They come from dear old Donegal and even from New York, From every street in Glasgow they proudly make their way, To a place called dear old paradise and this is what they say.
Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me, Celtic, Celtic on to victory, They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree, We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the scottish football league.
There’s Fallon, Young and Gemmell who proudly wear the green, There’s Clark, McNeill and Kennedy the best there;s ever been, Jim Johnstone, Murdoch, Chalmers, John Divers and John Hughes, And sixty thousand Celtic fans who proudly shout the news.
Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me, Celtic, Celtic on to victory, They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree, We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the scottish football league.
Ryecatcher
Noooooooooooopoo.
Mullet there may be veneer of respectability in scotland now but is wafer thin. The bill lifts the veil on true intentions ane thoughts and the thoroughly and institutionally racist police scotland have grasped their opportunity. Sadly o I r boaed are al too wiling to help them because there is money in fighting it.
Couple that with the rampant unchecked corruption aroind rangers and the layesy so called reporr on swctatianism and you should be very worried.
If the manager is now beginning to plan for next season’s CL assault then there is no point in Ledley & Samaras being involved until they sign a new contract.
Rather than go out in January and sign another batch of average players, loanees and projects and hope they come good, he should be working with and improving those already at the club. Give Pukki, Balde, Boerrigter, Biton, Rogic etc more game time and play more youngsters than he has been doing so far.
Mullet and Co
“Those days have gone. My son and Daughter can look forward to being treated as equals”.
Yip our Celtic supporting sons and daughters can certainly look forward to being treated as equal to bigots in modern day Scotland. After all the government have created an unjust law to hide the truth.
To seal this they have made the arbiters a heavily influenced masonic organisation.
Imagine my peril today at the game today belting out, Let the People Sing. I may offend someone in Blue ?
Mullet and Co……you are 100% correct.
Dry in ole East Kilbride?
Weather must be terrible everywhere else.
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Vinny..
Good..Hopefully will be booked Soon..Wedding is 1st March so might come couple of weeks Early..
I Missed a call from Ryan midweek..But could Not call back..l will pm him as he and a Mate are in Melbourne before he heads Home..You will be glad to have him Back..and DerryGhirl..
Summa
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Ps..Vinny
If l Run a Bus this time l am the First for a Ticket..Not the Last..Don’t want to get ‘Lifted’ again..Ha Ha..
Summa
Neganon
You’re losing the plot now.
Don’t you have game to go to?
Bournesoup….
Have you purchased your Tap Shoape Champagne for today yet?
BarchesterCreamTahitionTourCSC
Mullet and. CO
The abuse thing is undeniable. The Church seems and has seemed quite unable or unwilling to address it.Right here in Scotland the wrong people are in charge.
But abuse isn’t the whole story. Across the world Catholic priests and people do heroic work inspired by faith.
Still, it’s time for a purge.
Cowiebhoy
You are right.
But the club need leadership right now. Pandering to those attacking us will split us asunder.
Kayal33,
It’s a difficult one. If he’s going to bring in new talent in Jan, you’d think he’ll need to sell some in Jan or summer, otherwise the squad – and wage bill – becomes bloated. Problem for me is that the players likely to go are the more experienced – recent recruits are unlikely to have a buyer.
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Talking about Scouts..
Peter Houston: Next Celtic Manager..
You heard it Here first..Even Owen Coyle’s Granny has Not been Told yet..
Summa
Summa
Will you still be around on 14th March?
I think throughout history religion has divided most societys there have been countless wars and millions have died and it is not going to change now as Rabbie said mans inhumanity to man. H.H.
Summa of Sammi
Jackie Mac, Owen’s granny is in the loop….
You heard it here first ;-)
Mullet & co
Apologies for equating u with the FF brigade. That was conduct unbecoming on my part.
Yes, you are correct there are individuals in the Church that have behaved disgracefully , however I believe the Church is very much a force for good the whole world over.
*****************ebay account hijacked*****************************
Imagine my horror to find my account had been hijacked and used to buy a Cliff Richard calendar
Turns out the hacker is my own dear Mrs Souprecipe, the only good news is, its a present for our next door neighbour so it will only be in the house for a week.
My feedback profile is however irreparably damaged.
HarryDoesn’tLiveHereAnymore CSC
On the list to go in January ( if any takers )
Derk
Pukki
Ledley
Kayel
Forest
Foster ( go now get replacement in)
Sammi. Sorry time has passed
Play youths and bring In 2 big guns
Does anybody remember a game against Hibs in the 70s that got abandoned in a pea soup fog?
It was so foggy that the guys in the Jungle couldn’t make out even the hair colour of the people whose trousers they were pishing on.
ACGR is picking me up shortly, hes delivering some of TET’s swag, couple of beers and lunch then on to Celtic Park.
If he is wearing a onsie again I’m going to lock the door
Away for a pre-match pint or two…..oilskin or
goretex,jungle or GB.
summa of sammi….
12:05 on 14 December, 2013
If you run a Bus next time I’ll make sure you get a ticket, what game we talking about?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Neganon2, the white paper suggests otherwise. Immigration plays a big part in there. That won’t play well with the WASP elements. They would have a new hatred for folk who are likely to support our club.
Rangers have been saved for the moment but the gradual dislike for overt racism and right wing support by the general populace will see their ultimate downfall. Folk won’t tolerate a national front rally on the tele every two weeks when they are allowed to resurface from consuming themselves.
I don’t see much of a future for Catholicism due to dwindling numbers attending church. Would there be an appetite to save our schools if no one was attending church?