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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rye
Only if you’re accusing me of being drunk and in charge of a suit and a Celtic scarf :-)
ernie
I agree that Graham Speirs, when backed into a corner, said, on one occasion, that they were a new club but that is as far as he was willing to go in breaking the prevailing narrative. As you say, he immediately stuck with the story that this was irrelevant to the claiming of previous honours.
Andy Walker just states that he cannot see that they can be anything other than a new club. He does not go on the warpath about it and call it out as the injustice and swindle that it is but neither does he go on to sugar coat the pill and say that they are entitled legally to their history. As far as I can make out, he says they are a new club and it does not bother him too much what they do, he is only interested in the playing of football, and his own career obviously.
Peter Grant was 16 years at Celtic?? Seems like 61!! You had ur moment Peter. Amen!!!
Daughter in Baltimore reports seeing this in a pizzeria’s window ———
Christmas Special -Deep Pan Crisp and Even.
Walker also says that Rangers,not Sevco,should be back in the SPL
I mentioned Hull Tigers in an earlier post. Got me thinking about a team I played against many, many moons ago with an animal in their name. Pollok Panthers. They wore an all black strip played their home games on a black ash park in Kinning Park and were
mental!!! And we played with the dreaded Mitre ball. Happy days!
The following is from Christopher Brookmyre’s brilliant The Rules of Playground Football
The Ball
There is a variety of types of ball approved for Primary School Football. I shall describe the most popular:
The rough-finish Mitre or Trophy 5. Half football, half Portuguese Man o’ War. On the verge of a ban in the European Court of Human Rights, this model is not for sale to children. Used exclusively by teachers during gym classes as a kind of aversion therapy. Made from highly durable fibre-glass, stuffed with neutron star and coated with dead jellyfish.
Advantages: looks quite grown up, makes for high-scoring matches (keepers won’t even attempt to catch it).
Disadvantages: scars or maims anything it touches.
I’m not normally one for complaining about former Celtic players who now work for the media.
But……. could someone PLEASE give Peter Grant another coaching job down south?
It’s looking more likely the Easdales have the share backing to bury the Murray twins with their shares and backing from other shareholders and abstainers.
The rst, SOS …a good header that and some other Orc groups are going to withdraw their funds and advise all their follow followers to do the same.
That can only mean administration… And again says us, jelly and ice cream again.
Wait a minute, does that kill the new incarnation?
Will it make them sell and lease?
Or maybe it’ll be the old…no debt same history!
I truly find it strange after the outcome of the lns, titles and Asa, there is not something untoward going on again.
Call me a paranoid tim as I’m used to that.
I just don’t trust the ones that could and should have finished them off.
I can sm…
JohnnyClash
as long as he doesn’t get on tv in Foreign, that is fine by me
Paul67
A terrific cause for Celtic Quick News to support and no better way to mark the tenth anniversary of the blog.
Given the track record of the CQN community it is certain the the £7k target will be smashed.
You’re a good man.
SwanseaBhoy
Peter Grant, the new face of ITV4.
..or he could present ‘Adolf Hitler, what he REALLY got up to in his spare time’, on Channel 5.
Stick him on Channel 5, in any capacity. Fine by me.
Sipsini…
Laxey are the worst possible nightmare to ever hit the Orcs.
Ruthless asset strippers and only interested in property and short term returns.
An insolvency event is inevitable.
I bet they’re mad about not having their AGM this week after our Barca game.
Let’s hope we win in style tomorrow and nothing we do gives SMSM any excuse to focus on anything other than what, in any other country would be comprehensively covered. Just like they do with anything negative about us.
No deflection!!
Sorry, I haven’t read back this afternoon. Just wanted to say that today’s shenanigans from the SNP have decided me. I couldn’t vote for anything associated with such a bunch of chancers.
They had laws in place to deal with sectarianism; naw. That only punished one lot (not that the law was implemented); so, Roseanna Cunningham decides to even things up and comes up with a catch-all law, which deems what is in the mind of the offended is offensive, that is roundly ridiculed in legal circles and deemed unworkable by judges. Now, they set up a commission which find that the easy scapegoat (Kafflik skules) aren’t to blame. So, the clubs (note the plural) should be punished by the ole SFA by having points deducted because they have not taken proper action.
This is the same party, whose “Justice minster”, MacKaskill praised the hordes of the deid team’s followers, for singing their full unabridged vile sectarian hymn sheet at the National Stadium.
Cunningham says she knows whose responsible. So do we, hen. I bet there is not mention of the Ludge, Masonic and Orange Orders from her.
Sorry for that. Rant over.
Rangers Radio maybe. I hear there’ll be a vacancy in the New Year!
nakasammi
Was thinking that very thought myself earlier. What a trick they missed there!
Peter Grant was Robert Morley’s double.
Robert Morley was a better footballer than Peter Grant.
Think even Eric Morley was a better footballer than Peter Grant.
Peter Grant – A Face for Radio.
Mislead = lied
Ryecatcher,
Any other club, I would agree with you as Laxey have previous.
Although the reincarnation don’t, the cabal behind them have.
Hope you are right though.HH
2……..
‘Adolf Hitler’s Favourite Old Firm Moments’ on Ch 5.
Sipsini
“It’s looking more likely the Easdales have the share backing to bury the Murray twins with their shares and backing from other shareholders and abstainers”.
David Low, who most will know was heavily involved with Fergus McCann during his takeover of Celtic, tweeted recently (I’m paraphrasing) that the Eadales had control of around 40% of the shares in Sevco. He made the point that the ‘normal’ number of votes cast at an AGM would total about 60% of those avialable therefore the Eadales have 66% of the likely number of votes to be normally cast. He then said that even if the voting was unprecedented at 78% the Easdales 40% gave them 51% (51.28% – I checked it) and victory.
He managed to say it in 140 characters or less.
LongwindedSwanseaBhoy
Robert Morley??
A great cause Paul67 & I am sure the Bhoys of CQN will be well up to the task, it never ceases to amaze me what this fine blog can achieve, seat booked for CQ10’s St Patrick’s night special I’m sure it will be a night to remember
Whens Bang-gura available??
Three men died on Christmas Eve and were met by Saint Peter at the pearly gates.
‘In honour of this holy season’ Saint Peter said, ‘You must each possess something that symbolizes Christmas to get into heaven.’
The first guy fumbled through his pockets and pulled out a lighter. He flicked it on. ‘It’s a candle’, he said.
‘You may pass through the pearly gates’ Saint Peter said.
The second guy reached into his pocket and pulled out a set of keys. He shook them and said, ‘They’re bells.’
Saint Peter said ‘You may pass through the pearly gates’.
The third guy started searching desperately through his pockets and finally pulled out a pair of women’s panties.
St. Peter looked at the man with a raised eyebrow and asked, ‘And just what do those symbolize?’
The paddy replied, ‘These are Carols.’
Have to apologise for the ending of the joke I had thought I changed it to the third guy…Hmmm.
Old timers might remember Peter Grant [ Count Massimo ] on the tele/Saturday afternoons -Live from the West Ham Baths.
Everyone is entitled to there opinions.and that includes ex celtic players, them bhoys that mock our club,are just doing what our supportersthink and there is a lot of them.pointing the finger at coaches and directors etc
The boul’ Granty was recently rewarded with the Robin Cook Radio Personality Palme D’Or award in Norwich.
Afternoon Guys,
CQN Annuals making their way out to the following addresses:
Brora
Carshalton
Dingwall
Bradford
Dumbarton
Omagh
Renfrew
Bellshill
Inverness
Kellington
Dumbarton
Bonnybridge
Motherwell
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Atwell, Western Australia
Weegreenman
Last week Willie Wallace sent me on that joke about the 3 guys dying and going to heaven and apologised immediately as it was so old!!!
Mind you I hadn’t heard it and so have been telling it ever since! lol
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The other Peter Grant scored an absolute screamer v The Flying Pig at Easter Rd during the Centenary season . A memorably great goal !
Parkheadcumsalford, 1534:-
Have you read the report on sectarianism released by the Scottish Government today?
I quickly skimmed it and noted the following embarrassing inaccuracies:-
The report claims that the Troubles in Northern Ireland started in the 1970s;
The report states that Celtic Park is in Edinburgh;
The report states that the Scottish football authorities are the SFA, SPL and SFL;
It is full of “the people we spoke to said…..” type of statements. Evidence very thin on the ground in my opinion and mistakes like those above just shoot the credibility of the report down in flames.