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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weegreenman.16:17,
PMSL,are you sure there`s no a fare still sitting in the back of that cab in your garage,do you do Boundary charges?.
HH
So that’s £42,200 less for us to spend in January on new signings
btw, why do the Sevconians have a ‘war chest’ when everyone else has a transfer budget?
Paddy Gallagher
Standing up for Neil Lennon. We have a genius in our midst, IMO.
Paddy Gallagher.
It should be obvious to everybody.
P G
Im with you!!
I posted this today before Neil’s statement:
Paddy Gallagher
11:02 on
13 December, 2013
Anger, acceptance, embarrassment now reality. We were punching above our weight in that group. We had a bit of bad luck in the early games and a stupid sending off. Backwater league (SPL) that generates minimum income compared to the smaller teams in other leagues. We will always struggle in European competition unless we amass massive debt or find a league that will generate the funds to finance our European ambitions.
masty is neil lennon and both of us are supporting wee oscar
16:53 on
13 December, 2013
I nearly pashed ma pants readin that..
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Sorry. Should have provided some kind of caveat at the outset!
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The Honest Mistake loves being first
16:58 on
13 December, 2013
That can’t be real.
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Depends on your definition of “reality” I suppose. Their parallel universe is their reality!
Think NFL has been reading some of CQN’s excellent posters.
Very good summation CSC
Paddy Gallagher
16:57 on 13 December, 2013
‘http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11787/9071680
Here is a Celtic man talking about the reality.’
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Doesn’t address the real concern, namely the apparent lack of effort from the players in crucial games.
“Extremely disappointed ”
Celtic FC
ole Jingle Belle does the Wiggle.
Still at work.
Sumbdy goany post a nice photie to cheer me up?
Christina, or that Irish lassie on the beach wae her hat and her wee flag.
HH
BGFC
Slow day…at the office…wull tak advantage..
Still, oan Edin’s Laptoap..
Lookie Here,
If Ah wiz being totally Honest.. which ,Ah am…NO…….well…. Usually!
Ah wid ..Proclaim..
“Yep.. A Fifty Thousand Euro, Fine.. WIZ, Appropriate~”
Howevahhhhhhhhhh…
Like Ah hiv Said..’
Ah am NO… USUALLY.. Totally .. Honest!
Therefore..
Ah wull NO say..
“A Fifty Thousand Euro, Fine, ..wiz … Appropriate.!”
Kojo.
BGFC- ;/)
For you IT wizzers Go on to http://www.theirishvoice.com issue 5 for the bouncy bouncy sodgers thing.
Page 3 btw
Nothing we haven’t heard before IMO.There are much better players out there for £2 mil than Pukki and Boeriggter.
Just read the report on the official club website about the £42,000 fine.
The bit that concerns me is the bit that refers to possible competitive sanctions.
Whether you agree with the validity of the banners or not, to me is irrelevant. EUFA make the rules and they ain’t about to change them.
Surely no genuine Celtic fan would knowingly damage the club further by placing their own agenda before the wellbeing of the club
In our CL group section last season what pot were we in?
5ml 6ml or 7ml I don’t care, please celtic spend it wisely,thats all I ask.
B B
Jonny Russell for one imo
Paddy Gallagher
We all know Neil feels as sore as we do with the result and the performance.
This team all of a sudden have not become duds. We recognise there’s work to be done and we’ve got to trust our manager to do this.
These guys are mostly young and developing footballers now playing at a club with massive expectations compared to where many of them came from.
I believe we as fans have our part to play in their development through our support and encouragement starting tomorrow in what is forecasted to be a very windy, rainy day.
Can anyone name a player whose performance has improved as a result of being booed or jeered by their own support? That’s why I don’t and will never do so.
BB
You’d get Henrik Larsson for less than £2m!!! :-)
Jude-i thought JR was a cert,specially as we had bid for him last year.
So sevco get fined sweet nuthins for displaying a sectarian banner??
Come on Celtic appeal and use this!!
B B
Even Chic Dung was scratchin his head re Celtic not signing J R the other night.
Don’t think sevco play in any of their competitions.
So will Uefa now fine themselves for the banner that was displayed at every champions league tie in memory of the freedom fighter Nelson Mandela?
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
17:34 on 13 December, 2013
BB
You’d get Henrik Larsson for less than £2m!!! :-)
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And even now it would be Money well spent, if he was either playing or coaching. The 9-0 Aiberdeen game was not just a coincidence. I also reckon Henke would still top the charts in Scoddland.
See our misfit manager is toeing the party line re signings,need a strong character to stand up to pirate pete time for a change
Celtic fined £42,000 by UEFA.Celtic officials doffed their caps,bowed their knee,and said “Thank you very much,your gracious Majesties for being so lenient”
You would have thought,or maybe I would have,that our “Custodians”would have highlighted this weeks show of political commemoration of Nelson Mandela,by UEFA,himself a convicted terrorist,as a plea of mitigation.Not a bit of it.Another condemnation of the GB was their only reply.No argument that the display was anything but political,but a comparison about what is legal and illegal in Scotland.
As usual the MSM are on about the display of “A Bobby Sands” banner.No mention of William Wallace.That does not suit their agenda,backed up by our gutless,apologetic excuse for a board.
The usual suspects will be on telling us all that the GB are to blame.Bo!!ocks.This was a cleverly thought out protest about the ridiculous new laws brought out in Scotland,instigated by a rabid hun politician,who openly admitted that the present laws only criminalized huns.
Where now is the John Reid statement,that we will no longer”Sit at the back of the bus”
Our board,since the inception of this farce of a law,have failed our support time and time again.Dont get me started on collusion.
They should have told UEFA.This is not political.How could it be?.This is a protest within Scotland,about a draconian law against innocent football fans throughout Scotland.Backed up by fans of nearly every team.Remember,the hand wringers,what started this law.”The shame game”.you know the game when 3 hun thugs were sent off,strong armed their way about the park,during and after the game,assaulted the officials,and walked away from it all smirking.The only “Culprit”according to the law was Lenny.
In fighting this abomination of a law,the GB have been villified by their own support,to their undying shame.A wonderful ally to the rabid,anti Celtic,MSM in this country.
Sleep well tonight knowing you have abetted the anti- Celtic forces gathered against us.The GB are no more.Neither is the club I have loved for the past 50 years.
If any of the hand wringers think the UEFA officials knew what the banners were about,waken up.With the likes of the hurting hun Dallas prowling the corridors of UEFA,aided and abetted by the likes of Ogilvie,and the hun PR machine,you are more to be pitied.
BGFC
Wiggle while you work!
We get a £42,000 fine for a banner remembering a Member of Parliament.
Ajax get £20,000 for ‘Fenian bastards’.
Rotten to the core.
Following on from his statement to Sky,it seems clear that NFL is not poised to spend the cash required to sign “a proven striker” in January, but will still be seeking to strengthen the squad.
I would love him to sign a playmaker like Naka or Lubo if possible and give one or two of the youngsters a go up front. He will know if Joe and Sammi are leaving and it makes sense to get replacements in asap to be ready for the CL qualifiers in July.
I don’t want any short term loanees. He may consider calling back Jackson, Callum and Tony; match time playing to our system rather than those played by Kilmarnock, Notts Co and Lierse. Do we have anything to lose by doing this?
How many who complain about not spending more on players thing the GB were right to display the banners at a CL match?
Boeriggter and JF appear to have been born injured just as AS appears to have been born offside ;-)
Boeriggter… Oota Commish…
AGAIN??
and ..if That is the Case.
Should Ah Be Surprised?
Are You Jokin’?
Why we signed sucha ..Malingerer… is Soitenly, No Surprise tae Kojo
And the reason?
Why.. Kojo.. Alwiz.. Reads The Online Supporter Forum..of the Player ,we hiv Jist Signed.
And..
If the Celtic Scouts,hid done …the SAME… Previous, of course, tae.. Clinching the Transfer of Mr. Boerrigter..
We wid .. Soitenly.. No Be stuck wi.. Sucha.. well.. Malingerer,in oor Midst.
They, the Celtic Crack Scouting Team..
Should… ALSO.. Mak it a Point tae Carefully Read over.. The Online Supporter Forum.. of the Team… of ANY Player.. in Whom, they are Considering Making a Bid.
BEFORE..they .. Clinch .. the Deal.
Fur ,Naebuddy.. Knows… The Proper VALUE..of a Player ..than an Ardent Fan of the Team, for which he Plays.
And .. Supporter Forums, are Usually.. Full of Ardent Fitba Fans of Their chosen Team
Right?
Damn Right..
The Celtic Scouts , mebbe. should.. Tak Kojo’s Advice .. tae Hert..
And
Invest in a few,(which could turn oota be , well spent.).. Days, of Scouring over.. The Online Supporter Forum..of the Team… Player ,in Whom ,they are Considering , in making a Bid.
A very Sound Investment , which Could..and Would… SAVE .. a LOATTA..
Precious….POTATOES!… and Precious.. TIME… FUR .. The Celtic!
Maks Sense … Tae Me.
Kojo
Fur.
Dr m
The club will have generated far greater income on the back of GB initiatives than the 42k fine we received today.
Turkeybhoy
Good post.