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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DR M 17:54 on 13 December, 2013
How many who complain about not spending more on players thing (sic) the GB were right to display the banners at a CL match?
Me for one……………..
TBM
nakasammi
17:01 on
13 December, 2013
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?
Yes that will really stop us from buying any quality players.Although,going by our present spending,the board could have got us the striker and midfielder we need for that amount.
GB s fault again.£42,000 gone.I would rather pay that amount every season than be a second class citizen.
Turkeybhoy 17:45 on 13 December, 2013……..
Dead on………..
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Been a bit pre – occupied with other things lately but just came on to see what’s happening and saw Turkeybhoy’s post .
Nail hit firmly on head , very well said.
HT,
as a Holy Cross bhoy from the 60’s I often follow your posts with interest and agree with your sentiments most of the time. However; UEFA write and execute their “rules” and we, unfortunately, need to realise that and our young emotionally commited supporters will just have to play by those “rules”. We just can’t play those cards in the stadium any more without being punished; however painful that may be.
HH
Gerry
Should have said , Turkeybhoy’s post at
17:45 on 13 December, 2013
The UEFA fine is no surprise either in scale or in the “last warning” tone. The blazers at UEFA have the same bullying mindset as the bowling club commitee that sits at Hampden.
The way to deal with small clubs from small associations ( we’ re in that group) is different to how they deal with miscreants from the big TV auidience associations. They are happy to lord it over Scottish, Belgian, Slovakian etc.. clubs but shit them selves from taking action against the people who drag our game down by growing debt burdens that would drag countries to ruin, yet they prosper in the CL. If we stop over the line again we will be hammered, and the poodles in UEFA , MSM and Hampden will lap it up.
We have been found guilty , fair enough , but I see fear in our board as they know tehy are making enemies within our support and within UEFA.
Not been a great week for our club.
Surely Celtic will appeal against the fine,stating the rightful Madela banner being displayed by all clubs in a UEFA competition.
Boeriggter injured again.Chocolate man,we could had bought Russell and Mackay-Stevens for the money we spent on this waste of space.Who recommended him,who watched him( on the treatment table) sack him whoever it was.
Turkey Bhoy
Surely.. You Jest?
Let me get this Straight..
Ye jis Wrote..
And Ah quote:
“….I would rather pay that Amount( A FORTY TWO THOUSAND POUND, FINE.)
every season( EVERY? ) than be a second class citizen.”
Wow!!
You Really Mean THAT?
Gosh!!!!!!
Kojo
DR M
17:54 on 13 December, 2013
‘How many who complain about not spending more on players thing the GB were right to display the banners at a CL match?’
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I wonder how many people who think Celtic should pay a living wage think the GB were right to display the banners at a CL match?
darwinsbeautifulidea 17:45 on 13 December, 2013
“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”
Maybe you could do it. And I’m sure you’ll have the strength of character to use your own name when you make you stance.
Hamiltontim
So we should just continue to do things that the club gets fined for (maybe worse in the future) because they have also done a power of good for the club.
I agree with what the banners represented and thought it was also clever and if the GB want to march down the street, stand outside Hampden or George Square I would stand behind those banners but cant be done at football grounds anymore.
gerrybhoy
How can UEFA have banners of Nelson Mandela at games then ?
DR M
17:54 on
13 December, 2013
How many who complain about not spending more on players thing the GB were right to display the banners at a CL match?
I do 100%.
Hail Hail to those Celtic Supporters who were not involved in vandalising seats, but are
not allowed into Celtic Park tomorrow. I hope your meetings go well with the club and
Celtic realise the folly of confusing issues and punishing innocent fans.
Gerry
If you follow my witterings you should know I often spout nonsense! :-)
However, though I understand your argument, I think it’s high time that those in charge at Celtic made a stand.
Not only on behalf of us, the supporters and lifeblood of the club, but also to highlight the hypocrisy and corruption within UEFA.
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar 17:52 on 13 December, 2013
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……..
HT……… Maybe if they had put images of Wallace and Sands alongside their base insult of ‘Fenian Bastards’ the resulting fine would have been halved or maybe even suspended given that it would have been specific and not open to interpretation………..Naw!
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Kojo,
I’m not surprised they upped the anti. There will have been no defence from the board or the sfa, as it suits their agendas.
Just one point to make, call it whitaboutery or whatever.
When is the actions of the supposed armed forces going to be taken to task?
It will happen again, it’s the substitute for their old “church parade” that even sourness saw fit to ban.
If memory serves me right, it was reindocrinated under smith for a couple of years and became too embarrassing yet again.
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar 17:52 on 13 December, 2013
“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.”
The fine is double because UEFA consider it a fourth offence.
DR M
18:05 on
13 December, 2013
Hamiltontim
So we should just continue to do things that the club gets fined for (maybe worse in the future) because they have also done a power of good for the club.
I agree with what the banners represented and thought it was also clever and if the GB want to march down the street, stand outside Hampden or George Square I would stand behind those banners but cant be done at football grounds anymore.
Why not?.You miss the gist of the argument.The banners were NOT political.
Are we to stand like dummies while our support is victimized because UEFA say so?.
The GB appear to have a block of about 250, going by the numbers being dispersed.
If they each spend an average of £500 a season that’s £125,000.
Just saying.
“Craig Whyte is not involved with the club in any way…to my knowledge”
dr m
18:05 on 13 December, 2013
Hamiltontim
So we should just continue to do things that the club gets fined for (maybe worse in the future) because they have also done a power of good for the club.
I agree with what the banners represented and thought it was also clever and if the GB want to march down the street, stand outside Hampden or George Square I would stand behind those banners but cant be done at football grounds anymore.
——
I think to be completely accurate, it can’t be done at Celtic Park anymore is what’s really happening.
Apologies but need to beautify myself for night oot :-)
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
“However, though I understand your argument, I think it’s high time that those in charge at Celtic made a stand.
Not only on behalf of us, the supporters and lifeblood of the club, but also to highlight the hypocrisy and corruption within UEFA.”
That would involve growing a pair , not about to happen any time soon .
April 2011 – Rangers fined £35,652 for sectarianism
Rangers’s away fans are also banned from their next European away game after singing sectarian songs in their Europa League match against PSV Eindhoven.
January 2013 – Ajax fined £8,500 for fans’ banner
Before their Champions League game against Manchester City supporters of the Amsterdam club protested against rich clubs over-spending by unfurling a banner with a picture of a sheikh clutching a bag of money with the caption “against modern football”. Uefa deemed it “provocative and inappropriate” and fined the club.
October 2012 – Lazio fined £32,500 for racism
Lazio were fined £32,500 by Uefa for the improper conduct of their fans during the Europa League tie against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane last month. Loud monkey chanting from the away fans was directed at Jermain Defoe, Aaron Lennon and Andros Townsend during the Group J match, which ended 0-0 after three Spurs goals were ruled out.
June 2012 – Russia and Spain handed combined £40,335 fine for racism
Uefa’s disciplinary panel found both countries guilty of “improper conduct of its fans”. Russia was fined £24,203 and Spain £16,137. Russian fans made monkey noises at the Czech Republic full-back Theodor Gebre Selassie during Euro 2012 while Spain fans targeted abuse at Italy forward Balotelli.
April 2012 – Porto fined £16,700 for racism
Six weeks after Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli was subjected to monkey chants by the Portuguese side’s fans during a Europa League match back in February, Uefa finally got round to punishing Porto.
Sept 2011 Bulgaria FA fined £34,230 for racism
Bulgaria’s then coach Lothar Matthaus issued an apology at the time for the conduct of a minority of home fans who directed monkey chants at Ashley Young, Cole and Theo Walcott during the second half of the Euro 2012 qualifier in Sofia.
June 2008 – Crotian federation fined £10,000 for racism
Croatian FA were punished after their fans were found guilty of racist behaviour in their Euro 2008 quarter-final tie with Turkey. The Croatian fans were found guilty of “displaying a racist banner and showing racist conduct”.
June 2007 – Serbian FA fined £16,500 for racism
England U-21s were playing their Serbian counterparts at Stadion de Goffert, Nijmegen at the U21 European Championships when officials were forced to make an impromptu announcement, telling supporters to cease the abuse.
Sep 2003 – Macedonia’s federation fined £16,500 for racism
Cole, Heskey and Sol Campbell were among the England players racially abused by Macedonia fans during their qualifier in Skopje. Commentator Alan Green offered to identify some of the culprits while reporting on the match on Radio Five Live.
Oct 2002 – Slovakia football federation fined £18,000 for racism
Ashley Cole and Emile Heskey suffered abuse by Slovakia fans during a Euro 2004 qualifier leading to the Slovakian ambassador formally apologising to the Football Association. “To have the whole stadium shouting at you and making those gestures was frightening,” Heskey said.
Ernie
Dead quickly…..
I think Block 111 holds closer to 400.
Right, must dash.
ernie
250 is 75% more than actual members of the GB.
Just saying.
Turkeybhoy….
Hear here……
The Green Brigade are positive for Celtic and the atmosphere they create, tifos and banners displayed are a source of pride to me.When English and European football fans talk Celtic then they only have positive comments to make on their audio and visual displays.
The knee jerk reaction from Lawell and his mignons is disgusting,particularly over an issue where the facts are unproven.
Have a feeling Paradise will be like a morgue without section 111.
God bless our Green Brigade.
UTLR
Turkeybhoy
I haven’t missed the gist of the argument but UEFA have and they are the ones fining us.
FourGreenFields
18:05 on 13 December, 2013
gerrybhoy
How can UEFA have banners of Nelson Mandela at games then ?
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I just said, they (UEFA) write the “rules” for their competitions and we need to abide by them or suffer; plus, Madiba is being presented in an almost sainthood status world-wide. Note the number of VIP attendees at his memorial service. That is (obviously) not case in our instance. That is how it is.
Gerry
I do not want to denigrate a man like Nelson Mandela.But the fact remains.He was a political leader.He was a convicted terrorist.He served a great deal of time in prison.He fought against a regime that kept his people downtrodden for generations.He fought them the only way people like him can fight overwhelming government led forces.He was elected to his countries government.
Ladies and Gentlemen,for Nelson Mandela,I give you Bobby Sands.
One UEFA tell us to hoist banners for,the other they fine you £42,000 for.
It is time fur a Loata Celtic Fans, oan Here..and Elsewhere..
Tae Realize sumptin..
An the “sunptin”…it THIS..
“YE CANNY FIGHT CITY HALL!”
Oh.. sure.. Ye KIN .. TRY ..
But..
Ah kin tellya.. Right Noo.. and Ah hiv the Scars tae Prove it !
YE JIST.. Well.. CANNY!
Therefore.. Being fully Cognizant of That FACT..
There should Be..
No mair Controversial .. Banners , being Unfurled by Celtic Fans.. at
Fitba’ Matches..
whether ..at Hame or Away Fixtures..
‘
Either.. Political or..Jist.well… Controversial… Wans..
Period…
Maks Sense Tae Me.
Kojo
For it’s a grand old blog to post on….
Nice one, Paul67. I’m in no doubt that the £7,000 target will be smashed by the CQN community in jig time.
Sandy Easdale
Finger on the pulse
My a*#e
Easdale – “The gravy train at iBrokes has stopped”
Must’ve run out of OXO cubes.
(Other stock cubes are available)
The Honest Mistake loves being first
Astonishing. Utterly gobsmacking. Thanks for posting that. Someone should contact Rio Ferdinand and other high profile anti racism figures and put our fine in context with how UEFA deal with racism. They will be angrier than us and may actually have a voice.
Incredible figures there.
Dr M- if the GB march to Hampden- or indeed anywhere they are likely to attract the riot polis with accompanying batons drawn, dogs and horses
Ernie- I think there are around 400- 128 banned and another 250 moved according to Celtic
Now that 5 arrests have been made for the Fir Park stuff- how many are GB?– If they are not GB then who do the DR readers on here now blame- still the GB I take it
Paul67
A fantastic cause to mark a decade of CQN . Mary’s meals is a wonderful charity, I admire the people who give up their time for the cause. I have some wonderful people speak so enthusiastically at mass about the work.
Bravo sir , hat doffed.
On the fine…… Are we just going to accept this meekly or will we appeal?
It would appear that by levels of previous fines to clubs UEFA think a banner of Bobby Sands is more offensive that racism!!!
We need to show a bit of courage on this and challenge the decision.
However , given the PLC record in speaking out about injustice I won’t hold ma breath!