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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Quonno
Strangely my stomach is my weak point. Will pay for this breakfast later I fear.
16roads
Get yerself on the ferry to Stranraer in a fortnight. Guaranteed mentalness will happen comrade. Here we feckin go!
God bless the Emerald Isles Paradise visitors.
“Just been reading the Orange Standard from 1919. Scotland never returned a Roman Catholic MP in the General Election.”
*they are truly stuck in a time warp while the rest of the world moves on.
Was there a general election in 1919?
“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.”
Awe FFS someone should enlighten that auf wit that Canada is officially a Catholic country although no one tries to ram that done anyone else’s throat.
Also since 1968 there have only been 2 out of 9 Prime Ministers that weren’t RC and of them was only interim for 5 months before she and her to party were almost obliterated in a Federal Election going from 156 seats to 2.
As for “Apartheid Schools”, Muslims, Hindus and other non-Catholic parents tend to send their kids to them for the higher quality education and discipline which they entail
Starry
What does your good lady want the phone for ? Internet, speed, storage, apps ?
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
She needs to be available for a Japanese company she’s working for and talking photos of wee Starry, being a photographer myself I liked the look of the Sony??
Off oot to the Esquire Anniesland for food and drink wi family and friends. Only Celtic or Christmas brings us together nowadays. Happy Saint Stephen’s Day. God bless all here.
Rooney on the bench…..master stroke or downfall of LVH.
Mon the Stoke.
Hope you are all well today, I’m just relaxing on the couch at my daughters. G’lids playing in room still enthralled with their new toys. Wife and daughter out at sales doing what they do best, spending money.
Looking forward to tomorrow’s game, which I think we’ll win by a couple of goals. Griff just loves putting them to the sword so he’ll be fired up. 2_0 to the hoops for me.
1-0 Stoke
Taxi for LVG
KITALBA on 26TH DECEMBER 2015 12:38 PM
Was there a general election in 1919?
!918 was nearest.
Obviously FF could not utter the year of thon Timmy Education Act.
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Good afternoon and a happy and wet St Stephens day to all
SP-Samsung Galaxy by far IMO
Starry: I had a Sony Experia and hated it, it was very different from the iPhone which I had got very used to. I also had a Samsung galaxy which I much preferred over the experia but am now happily back on the iPhone.
Hope that helps:-)
I think wan of those bombs that was meant for Syria has hit my hoose .
2-0 Stoke
Afternoon all.
Just watched Stoke score a second against Man U. What a shot!
Thanks Bhoys,
My daughter has a Galaxy and it looks a decent phone, the I-phone is expensive in Switzerland and a wee bit outside or budget:((
Being a mac man I would like her to get an I-phone!!
No doubt she’ll come back with something totally different!
Starry Plough I use Samsung note 4 and wife has experia mines by far the better phone. Camera is way better mate. You have seen them of grandson etc on FB .
HH
KTF
UTLR
Weather looks really bad in the North West of England…any CQNrs on from that area?
My old stomping ground.
Should have said on previous post
Merry Christmas everyone belatedly.
I hope you all have a great 2016.
HH
KTF
UTLR
Starry –
changed my phone 2 weeks ago. A deal in Carphone Warehouse for the new Samsung Galaxy J5. £25 a month for 2Gb data, unlimited texts and 300 minutes. Very impressed so far. But if you do get one and work out how to transfer music from PC to phione be a good chap and let me know ;-)
jobobaldie@yahoo.co.uk
Happy 80th birthday to Lisbon Lion and hero Stevie Chalmers.
Hail! Hail! PMTYH
Should have been a third there.
Parkheadcumsalford on 26th December 2015 1:21 pm
Should have been a third there.
Aye and against the wind this half too.
Starry
I’ve just got a Sony Xperia M4 Aqua.
It was cheap as ….£14 a month from Virgin (you are overseas ?). For that I also get a GB data.
I use it for the internet, and communication primarily, FM radio too.
Keeping in touch……..phone text and mail suppose they all do that.
I had to return the first one I got, as a Sony update instal seemed to affect the speaker, the replacement has worked fine after I installed the same update.
The camera I aint used it a lot tbh . Storage is limited 8gb internal. It is expandable up to 32gb with a micro SD card. The storage is the only problem I foresee as sometimes I have several BBC i-Player tv and radio downloads………does your partner use her phone for music ? That’s something to consider if lots of photos too.
I’ve been pleased so far, for £14 a month, it’s fast to load web pages and a good screen size (5″) but just 720(p).
Virgin are giving a wee cheap tablet free with it , just now, as part of a promo.
CQN St Stephen’s Day Coupon –
Awalkacrosstherooftops : Arsenal (late KO!)
Blantyretim: Southend
Greenlion2: St Mirren
Jobo Baldie: Aberdeen
Lennybhoy: Coventry
Pogmathonyahun: Ipswich
The Token Tim: Walsall
1st time ive watched Manchester United since the greenhoff bro’s were there, they’re a very poor looking side for all that cash thats been spent.
Rooney on the bench, big guy with the 70’s affro is rank rotten btw -))
Rooney warming up? Louis’ last stand.
Took Stoke to win and both teams to score so get the Celtic fan on please Louis.
Is Tyler Blackett not available to save the day?
Jobo here’s a tutorial that might help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq15Dsgi16E
Thanks Eddie, will have a look later.
new article posted.
I don’t want to sound downbeat but does anybody see a similarity on our play with Man U…crablike?
Christmas Day is a cracker in the BMCUWP household.
Here’s how it goes on Boxing Day…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y4p8RYoJ9DQ