This year you made connections with new people. In the first half of the year you connected with 1226 pupils at Chibwata Primary School, Dowa, Central Malawi, who eat in a school kitchen you paid Mary’s Meals to build. This is it:
Two months ago you connected with the 1292 pupils at Kholoni Primary School, Mchinji, Central Malawi, who also eat at a school kitchen you paid Mary’s Meals to build. Here it is:
There is now around 4000 kids attending schools in Malawi with kitchens you paid for. Not only are they being fed, they are being educated in greater numbers than ever – enrolment is up around 30% after the kitchens go up. This gives them better life chances. Some will graduate from subsistence living to a life with opportunities.
Villages with better education facilities become more productive and wealthier, as do districts and countries. Across Mary’s Meals 1m plus daily meals, this will provide a significant lift to the drive away from absolute poverty for decades to come.
These are big numbers but the detail is always more revealing. Magners offer us a pair of premium seat tickets for most home games. When we run these competitions dozens of you click to donate to Mary’s Meals, putting food in the larders of school kitchens.
Then there are the regular donations to the Celtic FC Foundation. Celtic work with those who have fallen through the cracks in the UK, Ireland and the developing world. They feed the homeless in Glasgow, make facilities available to kids with autism, and generally go around like a green and white caped crusader. You have always responded to the call.
I get to see lots of this in action, there are small causes too numerous to mention, helped more often than not from people who don’t want you to know what they’ve done. There have been 100 stories in 2015 which will never be written, but will live as private anecdotes, or as kitchens in Africa, or winter clothing for refugees in Serbia. Celtic fans have been doing this for 128 years, each act is a commemoration of what started it all back in 1887.
I’ve met hundreds of CQN’ers but yet to meet one I didn’t like. Even the raging lunatics online (you know who you are!) are actually very decent people when you get them away from the keyboard. On behalf of the thousands you’ve helped this year, thank you very much. I’m sure Brother Walfrid would be very proud of you.
Have a great Christmas, you deserve it.
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BMCUW
What length is your mammy’s leg?
She can boot your baws fae 400 miles away. ;)))
Roamer
One Love.
Robert Nesta Marley CSC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdcDiiFFgLc
Gnite
HH
DELANEYSDUNKY
The power of communications nowadays.
I could lock my door in Kilwinning,but my phone betrays me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8B-BeaC8Xc
The greatest song ever written.
HH
Gnite again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8B-BeaC8Xc
Best ever.
Offski
HH
leftclicktic:
I’d bet my house I could name the man who shook the hand of the stranger refugee, and who bought him a scarf. I have a brave sneaky that there is an immigrant sitting in this room here, right now, who has shaken the same hand and received a scarf and a smile from the same happy soul too.
Never change mate, never rob the world of all those smiles.
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
Lads, for those in the CQN Naps Competition, please post your selection here:
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/christie-in-the-city-aid-to-refugees/comment-page-8/#comments
All the best,
fleagle1888
(Beirut CSC)
Morning all, still raining here and expected to rain for most of the day. I hope ye all had a lovely day yesterday. I’ll be in the Celtic store in Jervis Street on Monday using up my Christmas vouchers.
Let’s hope the Hoops give us something to cheer about tomorrow.
Good morning friends from a pretty wet, grey and blustery looking East Kilbride.
Morning all.
Hope you all had a most enjoyable day yesterday.
Peace and goodwill to all on here, and Tims worldwide.
…and a happy hoopy 80th birthday to the great Stevie Chalmers!
HH!!
Only one more sleep …..ooooooooooo ….!!!!
After the excesses of yesterday it feels like a fairly normal Saturday. Lots of football, even if the big game isn’t until tomorrow. I’m sure the msm will be full of Aberdeen’s opportunity to go top and pile the pressure on, etc. But whatever happens at Pittodrie today we have a chance to make a statement tomorrow at Tynecastle. A good win sets us up nicely for a treble charge.
How’s the hangovers?
Had a grand time myself, went to my daughters boyfriends parents, first time meeting, I didn’t realise they lived in a mansion in mosspark.
The meal was lovely, the music would probably be more to the taste of some of you bhoys (Irish country) on here.
That’s the daughter away for a week to Donegal…no one to moan at me:)
Enjoy Boxing Day…
UNREPENTANT INTERNET BAMPOTS, the New Entity, Vol 2 …… HILARIOUS ..!!!!
Paul67
This was a welcome read. It’s a humbling thought that shooting the breeze about a football club many love can lead to four thousand African children receiving a nourishing meal every day the sun rises. Feels like a Glasgow variation of the butterfly flapping it’s wings story. More power to you.
Merry Christmas season to CQN. 2016, bring it on.
Sipsini
Hope yer well buddy.
So yer daughter will be marrying into money?!
:-)
HH!!
Different topic – same FFin’ theme:
“Poll of MSP’s [in the Herald] what team do you support etc
1 vote for [Sevco], 1 vote!”
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“129 MSPS in Scotland and 1,repeat I ,MSP professes to support [Sevco].
That is what we are up against..and they don’t just dislike [Sevco] and the club’s support …oh no ,it goes a lot deeper than that,these people wield power on our behalf but definitely not in our interests or well being or what we value in society.”
——
“less than 1% supports the Nations best supported club.
We really face an uphill battle.”
——
“Just been reading the Orange Standard from 1919. Scotland never returned a Roman Catholic MP in the General Election.”
——
“[Sevco] need to find out who that MP is & start developing a relationship with them”
——
“People used to scoff at the belief that once in the door a taig would always move heaven and earth to get in more and more of their own…that period of 70s into the 80s was a disaster in many ways, as the b****rds moved in and turfed so many non RCs out.”
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“How ****ing true this is and it starts with the sectarian state funded education system where these [chaps] start to get braiwashed… at their bigot factories and it is working for them socially and politically as we the indegeonous protestant population are totally marginalised now.”
——
“Bizarrely more than 60% say they don’t follow football.
I’ve always thought men with no interest whatsoever in football are slightly sinister.”
——
“and we continue to sit back and let it happen – mind you when have you have the ‘real’ [Sevco] men (like Oor Barry – Captain of Rangers & Scotland at the time) sending his kids to the local RC schools then no wonder we are where we are today – but remember we are the bigots (allegedly).”
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“Thank God I live in Canada now. The old country is fast going to Hell in a handbasket. Save yourselves and get out while you can as…you will be an oppressed minority.The State religion will be RC, the schools will be RC and the [Sevco] will be marginalized to nothing.”
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“If I could I’d move to Northumberland…I despise this place sometimes…a legislative assembly where the [chaps] despise my football team, flag etc, and also despise my understanding of history, economics etc.”
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“I live in Northumberland and it wouldn’t do you any good.Labour win everything and surprise surprise most of them are left wing tims.They are everywhere and have engineered control.”
Monaghan1900 on 26th December 2015 11:09 am
Must have been giving the Buckie a battering.
Those zombies are not real human being.
Tripe for brains.
G1998 calls them miscreants lol had to Google that word, perfecto.
:D
God bless the Celtic of Glasgow – the world’s greatest.
Magical.
HH.
No pitch problems anticipated at Tynecastle for Sunday’s game between Hearts and Celtic #bbcsportscot
Hope the heads aren’t too sore and everyone had a great day.
We had a brilliant time and I even bumped into special JNP from these pages.
Now thoughts turn to Tynecastle.
C’mon the Celtic!
16roads
More to be pitied these poor nae brain zombies. Hope to see you soon amigo.
Monaghan1900 – Thanks for giving us an insight into the minds of the criminally, mentally insane.
Send in the clowns.
Zombie morons Yo-ho-ho!
Merry Christmas brain dead, deluded, paranoid, zombie monkey crackpots.
HH.
Gooooooooooooood morning all.
HT
Just discovered that a fry up with two bottles of chilled Magners is an excellent hangover cure. :)
Leftclick
Good morning comrade.
Hail Hail
Tallybhoy…
HaHa, they’re only pups, that’s in my eyes:)
Where are you now ya jet-setter?
I ended up in jtt’s house last night…he’s became a Twitter man now so doesn’t post much, I reckon a few have went the same way!
Hope all’s well with the family.
Here’s hoping we bounce back tomorrow.HH
Lots of English games off ,if you are putting a coupon on Bhoys
BB
Arabs game off too.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 26TH DECEMBER 2015 11:47 AM
HT
Just discovered that a fry up with two bottles of chilled Magners is an excellent hangover cure. :)
You must have a stomach like a cast iron shit hoose.
Wish ii wiz me.
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/you-did-this-in-2015/comment-page-13/#comment-2743157
I see Gordon Starchan believes that the product will be better if sevco and hibs are playing against in the top league, what happened when they were Gordon was it a better product?
DD
Thinking of going for a swim and a sauna to clear the head but your idea sounds much more appealing!!
Leftclicktic
Good morning ya big charmer. Hope you and the family had a great day yesterday.
HT
a braw day was had sir,
out for dinner today wae my bro and our broods,wae my mam sitting at the head of the table smiling broadly,
pricelessCSC.
till later all
may only good things come your way.
Good Morning Champions:))
How’s the Christmas going?
I have a wee tech question and would be grateful for some advice.
Mrs Starry has informed me she is buying a phone and not being a phone person I wondered if anybody knew what the best phone on the market is.
The Two that caught my eye were the Samsung Galaxy and The Sony Experia.
Any info gratefully accepted.
Bring on The Minis..
Right, enough is enough. Log on to read an article regarding the generosity of the Celtic support but can’t even read it as an advert for an insidious betting site is encroaching on article and obscuring a section of the piece.
Can’t even see the 1st few letters of my comment due to the same ‘encroachment’. Sick to f**k being bombarded with ad’s for betting sites and top of the range German cars etc. I have tried to put up with the annoyance and do not want to have to start loading additional software just in order to read CQN.
I really used to enjoy reading and occasionally contributing but it has become a chore I can do without. As someone posted recently the ‘blog’ really is in terminal decline despite the ‘hits’ count. It has become nothing more than a vehicle for adverts from multi national companies as well a being, of late, a mouthpiece of the board, never anything said to challenge the ‘official party line’ despite the oh so obvious malaise currently afflicting our club.
In short , far far too many adds, not enough decent analytical discussions on the state of the club, not anything like the old CQN.
The best for the New year Bhoys and farewell
http://readceltic.com/2015/12/26/team-news-celtic-v-hearts/
DD – God bless ye mo chara.
Hopefully I’ll be over soon enough and we’ll go absolutely mental.
HH LEGEND.