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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The wind generally doesn’t effect games at CP that much. The high, enclosed stands mean that not much wind gets to pitch level
Was there a one type deflects all type crash helmet for us weans in the Jungle in the 70s?
Seem to remember than Lanliq bottles were thicker than ElDee bottles.
Seriously….when I think back,we had some feckin eejits in the Jungle back then.
Every time there was a contentious decision or incident on the park then us weans would all duck for cover down the front of the Jungle.
Missed 2 games due to flu. If this game is on, I have to go. Please let it be cancelled.
Sorry to interrupt the TonyDonelly67 show…but
Isnt anyone concerned by the scoddish media demonization of Celtic supporters?
And how PL and his pals would rather punish their own supporters, at the behest of the hun media, than open their mouths about corruption and sectarianism…shame on you.
Celtic Football Club I love with all my heart, Celtic PLC on the other hand, are a disgrace imo
You can stick your Old Firm where the sun don’t shine….The board are nothing but cowards imo, happy to be at the back of the bus.
Quite happy to jump on any hun media bandwagon against their own supporters.
Shame on you PL
HH
big-cup-winners- I think entry is allowed anytime up to throwing out time, around 2.30pm.
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NegAnon..
NJoi your Flight..
Wee Tip..Drink all the Way here..And Keep Drinking when You arrive..
Beats Jet-Lag everytime..
Summa of Free24HrBarFlightCSC
goldstar10
EuroChamps67 will have some job trying to find a celebrity to spot today.
The Green Man
12:38 on
14 December, 2013
Sorry to interrupt the TonyDonelly67 show…but
great post all round.and i’m glad you mentioned the BAULD TONY i thought it was only me.
naka
The exceptionally unlucky dip 【ツ】
The green man
Well said sir, couldn’t have put it better myself!
Christmas shopping Celtic doggers have got Celtic v Hearts at home early kick off next Saturday to talk their way out of.
Fanandpatriot….
The reason it was clear outside but foggy in Paradise that day…..
The Green Brigade and their pyro….must have been them.
Tony Donnelly had a mate on a corporation bus who told him the driver had a cousin who was married to a guy who knew a guy that organised such displays at football matches back then.
The green man
All that stuff you just posted has been on my show all week, please keep ;)
ryecatcher
12:12 on 14 December, 2013
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.
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I remember it well. Hibs were 2-0 up with about 5 mins to go, when the referee abandoned the game. Hibs were, understandably, raging at that, and to rub it in, we won the replay later that week.
HH
Up, lol
BSR- he’ll still come up with a heavily mackintoshed Dean Park or Jim Murphy, they’re his bankers!
Well off now to St Helier to watch the game in the Soliel Bar with some good strong Celtic men. Have a good one wherever you are.
Allegedly Sean Fallon (RIP) commented after it got abandoned that we had played well enough to deserve the fog….
Coming down in buckets and blowing horizontal in ole EK.
nobrollysrequiredCSC
neganon2,
Enjoyed a wee chat with your bro a few days back, I’m with Summa, enjoy the free drinks on the plane, you’ll be in shock when you see the price of them when u get here!
AR
TonyDonelly67
I don’t want to be rude…but, you aren’t clever enough to be a smart arse, so don’t try.
As for the reactionary nature of your blind loyalty, more fool you.
You have got nothing to say worth listening to…..you just believe anything the board tell you, and that is no basis for reasoned discussion.
Now….unless you have anything positive to contribute to the debate..get off your straw throne….who made you the official spokesman?
HH
Favourite uncle
People post and ask me opinions, I just post my opinion back, I would rathe read than post, but not your posts, ;)
The true Celtic fan will be in attendance today,time to show your support for those that can manage.
Robcfc11
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I speak for myself on my club, you have nothing nice to say about my club, who made you the spokesperson for anti board, anti PL, anti Celtic, ….who cares, another keyboard hardman, lol,
That’s it TonyD……
Spread the love man
goldstar10
Thanks.
tonydonnelly67
Did you really post a racist slur the other night ?
Going for record soakings in one day. On 2 and counting.
For the Avoidance of Doubt…..
I posted a few weeks back asking if Reggae Star Maxi Priest was Paul Elliot’s cousin.
Nobody seemed to know (or care lol).
Had it confirmed that he is indeed that relative.
DoesanyonecareCSC
Morning all.
First of all to Jungle Jim- Happy Birthday sir.
Secondly I hope everybody is well and full of pre – Christmas Spirit ( fat chance I know but I can hope). And that is Spirit not Spirits.
Thirdly before I launch into a lengthy meandering post [forgive me but this has been on my mind for a long time but was brought into sharp events of the last 18 days] I must declare that I am 52, a not very good Catholic, a disaffected left winger, a Republican sympathiser but not a hardline one, jazz and punk loving, Dylan listening, failed author . I did not go to university though I have friends who did and in fact do. As it seems to be relevant I have had relationships of various length with women who were graduates, students or mere mortals who escaped/ experienced the joys of tertiary education. I support Celtic. But what is Celtic? I’ll start with some basic facts and drift into what I believe to be opinions.
Celtic is a football club formed in 1887 by a Marist Brother from Sligo to raise funds for the poor of the east end of Glasgow. Celtic’s home has always been in the east end of Glasgow, Scotland. Celtic is currently the champion club of Scotland as well as the holders of the Scottish Cup. At present leads the Scottish Premiership having not lost a game yet. Celtic became the first Scottish, British and Northern European team to win the European Champions Cup on May 25 1967. On 11 December 2013 Celtic lost it’s most recent fixture by 6-1 to FC Barcelona.
I think Celtic is about playing football as well and as stylishly as it can. It should be about never giving up – and as a result have won or at the very least saved matches and even seasons when all seemed lost. It is about generosity to others – former players, worthy causes and people with major, some or no real connection to Celtic or Glasgow’s east end.
It’s about knowing it’s history . Without Walfrid, Willie Maley, Robert Kelly, Jock Stein and Fergus McCann Celtic would be little if nothing – even if several of these guys got some big things wrong.
It is about knowing about the great team of the 1900s and 1910s. The glory days of the late thirties , the majestic teams of 1965 to 1974. The victory in Lisbon in 1967 and the Seville adventure 36 years later. Its about the tragedy of John Thomson, the most lean times from 1940 to 1965 and again the mostly barren season between 1989 and 1998. Losing to Feyenoord in 1970 and Partick in 1971. The fiasco that was Rapid Vienna in 1984, losing to Partizan Belgrade in the last minute in 1989, surrendering a whole league campaign in the last two minutes at Fir Park in 2005. It’s about still feeling aggrieved about what happened when we played Atletico Madrid in 1974.
It’s about knowing about the triumphs in the 1925 , 1931 , 1965 and 1969 Scottish Cup Finals , the Exhibition Cup of 1938 and the 1953 Coronation Cup. Beating a team called Rangers 7-1 in a cup final.
It’s about heroes like Sandy McMahon, Sunny Jim Young, Alec McNair, Jimmy Quinn, Jimmy McMenemy, Patsy Gallagher, Jimmy McGrory, Adam McLean, John Thomson, Jimmy Delaney, Malky McDonald, Charlie Tully, Bobby Evans, Bertie Peacock, Sean Fallon, Willie Fernie, Neil Mochan, Jimmy Walsh, Ronnie Simpson, Jim Craig, Tommy Gemmell, Bobby Murdoch, Billy MacNeill, John Clark, Jimmy Johnstone, Willie Wallace, Stevie Chalmers, Bertie Auld, Bobby Lennox, John Fallon, Joe McBride, Willie O’Neill, John Hughes , Charlie Gallagher, Bob Rooney, Jimmy Steele, Jim Brogan, George Connelly, Davie Hay, Harry Hood, Kenny Dalglish, Danny McGrain, Dixie Deans, Tommy Callaghan, Tommy Burns, Roy Aitken, Murdo MacLeod, Pat Bonner, Paul McStay, John Collins, Tom Boyd, Henrik Larsson, Paul Lambert, Lubo Moravcik, Stan Petrov, Chris Sutton, John Harstson , Shunsuke Nakamura, Artur Boruc, Martin O’Neill, Gordon Strachan and Neil Lennon
It’s about wishing that – whatever the reasons they didn’t quite- John Higgins, Alex Byrne, Lou Macari, Brian McLaughlin, Charlie Nicholas and Aiden McGeady has also been
all time Celtic greats. It’s about accepting that for some players and for a variety of reasons – Paddy Turner, Wayne Biggins, Stuart Slater, Juninho – the move to Celtic was not
a success personally or the club. It’s a hero turned villain such as Mo Johnston. It’s about the enigmatic, talented but ultimately frustrating three Amigos. It’s about acknowledging that most players who wore the Hoops did their best even if I or you didn’t like each and every one of them.
It’s about big Billy scoring versus Vojovidina in injury time, wee Jimmy against Red Star, the Leeds games, Dixie’s heartbreak v Inter and the same player’s triumph a little bit later in the Cup final. Its the 4-2 game, John Doyle scoring v Real Madrid and Lift Off at Love Street in 1986 and the centenary of two seasons later. Haraald Bratbaak scoring v St Johnstone, Henrik scoring Celtic’s 4th in the 6-2 game of 2000, Big John at Anfield, David Marshall in the Camp Nou, Naka and the Holy Goalie v Man U, Big Jan in the last minute turning our season round in 2008 and Tony Watt v Barcelona. It’s playing Liverpool in their first game after the Hillsborough disaster and those who helped in the aftermath of the tragedy at Ibrox in 1971.
It’s about being A Grand Old Team, Just Not Getting Enough, You’ll Never Walk Alone and the Fields of Athenry. It’s about singing rebel songs on the bus or in the pub. It’s about not singing rebel songs on those same buses and in those same pubs if you dont want to . It’s about being comfortable that Celtic have a support in which many , probably the majority are Catholic by birth , Irish by either birth or ancestry, working class in origin, politically left leaning and take Celtic too seriously than is probably healthy. It’s also about acknowledging that Celtic have fans who are non- catholic, are not and have no wish to be Irish, vote Tory- heck some are probably even women ( joke). Many Celtic fans choose to identify themselves with Basque Separatists, Palestinian freedom, anti-fascist action, St Pauli, Villarreal and Cliftonville I quite like that those fans do but I do not believe these other things are Celtic. I may be wrong.
What Celtic is not though is:
The Catholic Church , The IRA , The PLC Board, the Green Brigade, letting off flares at matches, Celtic fans being treated like animals in Glasgow or Amsterdam or like potential terrorists in Barcelona. It is not CQN, NTV, The Huddleboard, E-Tims or Kerrydale Street. Celtic is Celtic
Celtic lost its last match by 6-1 . I’ll be going to see the Celtic today.
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
Big cup winners
I was told it was, and I made my appols. I didn’t know it was, so you could say it was a mistake, or you could say what ever you like, but I did appol. If I had upset anyone, a few backed me up that had been in Canada like I had been for many years, and they said naaaa it wasn’t over there, same as I thought, but it is here so that was the point.
tonydonnelly67
12:19 on 14 December, 2013
I noticed fat salary said he doesent know what way he is going to vote at thems AGM next week, has there ever been or will there ever be anyone more sleekit than this excuse for a man, Humpty Dumpty right enough, a more cringeworthy person has ever stepped on this planet than this slug,
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It’s obvious to me, how Fat Sally’s going to vote. If he was voting “with the fans”, he would have declared it by now. Even a thicko like me can see he wants to retain the status quo, and have his very very nice chats with the currant(sic) incumbents.
Despite his piss-taking of their fans, I still can’t stand the sleekit wee S!@t.
HH
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antipodean red..
Been meaning to Ask you for a While..Did You know Pat C from Melbourne who passed away couple of Years Ago..If you know Him you will probably know me..Pally with John and Ernie..Brothers (Always forget their surname)..
Summa
tonydonnelly67
11:33 on 14 December, 2013
Ryecatcher
Most of the women I went out with where students.
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How expansive is your patio?
TonyD….
Did you drink Canada Dry?
Or just make a good attempt at it?
Jobo baldie.. that not you describing a summers day in EK ?
Interesting article from Celtic Journal on the Japanese player coming over for a trial
http://celticjournal.org/3793/hiroki-yamada-scout-report/