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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:
Chibwata sign 400

Chibwata internal 400

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:
Kholoni internal kids 400
Kholoni internal cooking 400
Kholoni sign 400

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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  7. dena29 on

    Hamiltontim on 24th December 2015 9:55 pm

     

     

    Thanks she is definitely in a better place ……………

     

     

    see you on the 2nd then

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ROY CROPPIE on 24TH DECEMBER 2015 9:50 PM

     

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWl455JWEAAZ_2H.jpg

     

     

     

     

     

     

    come on Santa…one more time

     

     

     

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    we can but dream :-)))

     

     

    HH

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  12. praecepta on

    Auldheid on 24th December 2015 9:34 pm

     

     

    You’re welcome!

     

     

    Interestingly – if you scroll down to the foot of the article you will find a ‘Related Content’ section. This would appear to be ‘more in-depth’ articles by English Journalists on specific clubs/cases.

     

     

    Not sure but maybe they might be interested in your ‘Press Pack’ – worth a scroll.

     

     

    Hope you and the family have a good Christmas and I will catch up with you one of these days for an update. :-)

  19. the_huddle on

    roy croppie on 24th December 2015 10:14 pm

     

     

    That scary moment when you remembered you put cans in the freezer ages ago…

     

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    Better than bottles :O)

  27. connaire12 on

    Dena 29

     

     

    Sorry to hear of your loss at this special time. Getting ready for Midnight Mass, so I will remember you aunt and all your family before the Lord.

  37. voguepunter on

    Roy C THE MHAN

     

    Dena thinking of you ma wee darlin

     

    4GF Kiddn bhud…..before that knee heals up.

     

     

    God bless all on here….especially our host HH

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