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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:
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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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  3. antipodean red on

    Merry Christmas to all the Bhoys and Ghirls out there from a very damp Darwin, 170mm warm rain expected up here today, first Christmas Day at work in 20 years. Doh!

     

     

    HAIL HAIL

  7. dode on

    happy christmas to all youse bhoys, just sitting with my son and his girl all the way from sydney have a good one !

  11. Dannymac on

    HT-10.50pm

     

    My favourite line is “Can’t make it all alone,I built my dreams around you”

     

    Merry Christmas.

  14. Hamiltontim on

    DANNYMAC on 24TH DECEMBER 2015 11:54 PM

     

    HT-10.50pm

     

     

    My favourite line is “Can’t make it all alone,I built my dreams around you”

     

     

    Merry Christmas.

     

     

     

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    It’s brilliant Danny. Marry Christmas to you and all those you care about mate.

  15. Cosy Corner Bhoy on

    Merry Crhistmas to all CQNrs I have already met at games or Hootenannies and to all I have still to meet :) :)

  20. Hamiltontim on

    Merry Christmas my fellow Rebels. Here’s to a treble and our most needy employees receiving a Living Wage.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  24. bigshuggy on

    Bad report from my lady doctor today, a double whammy on Christmas Eve. She said I had Tourette’s and incipient dementia. She ‘s wrong she is feckin lying ***************** feekin dirty ********** Anyway, Happy Easter, all you good Tims out there. Hope we grub these fekkin dirty rotten #########yesterday. Fekkers.

  26. peterbhoy on

    Merry Christmas to all my fellow celts , have a happy and blessed new year , Onwards and upwards treble here we come! :0

  32. Jobo Baldie on

    BBC and its the Top Of The Pops Christmas Show from 1979. Oh and a wee glass of red.

     

     

    Happy Christmas.

     

     

    And I’m not up early, I’m up late ;-)

     

     

    IanDuryRhythmStickCSC

  36. Dannymac on

    Jobo-

     

    Sunday girl and Blondie takes me back.

     

    Merry Christmas and keep up the good work with LMS.

  37. Hamiltontim on

    Watching Its a Wonderful Life and I can’t help thinking about George being the Celtic Trust and Potter being our boardroom members :-)

  38. Auldheid on

    Paul 67

     

     

    The Christmas message below could be just for you but just as equally it could apply to everyone who contributes to CQN.

     

     

    I came across it a good number of years ago and in some ways it turned out to be quite prophetic and I like to think of it in that personal way, which me being me, makes me want to share it.

     

     

    Life has a song to it and we are the singers, there are no bum notes to the song because life times would not be perfect without them.

     

     

    In John Powell SJ’s book, Through Seasons of the Heart, he has a thought for every day of the year.

     

     

    This was his thought at Christmas.

     

     

    December 25th

     

     

    “There is an old Christian tradition that God sends each person into this world

     

    with a special message to deliver

     

    with a special song to sing for others,

     

    with a special act of love to bestow.

     

     

    No one else can speak my message, or sing my song, or offer my act of love.

     

    These are entrusted only to me.

     

     

    According to this tradition, the message may be spoken, the song sung,

     

    the act of love delivered only to a few,

     

    or to all the folk of a small town,

     

    or to all the people in a large city,

     

    or even to all the people in the whole world.

     

     

    It all depends on God’s unique plan

     

    for each person.

     

     

    Your message has been heard in my heart,

     

    Your song has warmed my world,

     

    And your love has brightened my darkness . . .”

     

     

    John Powell SJ

  40. connaire12 on

    Just back from celebrating Midnight Mass so I want to wish all on CQN a very happy and blessed Christmas. Hoping that we will move to a year of peace and mercy in our world.

     

    Have a great festive season ghuys and ghals, especially Hamilton Tim and all who work tirelessly through the year to make our voices heard.

     

     

    Hoping the New Year will see Ronnie win his first treble. But come what may we will still be Celtic supporters and hopefully faithful through and through.

  41. Margaret McGill on

    Merry Christmas Paul67

     

    And all you wonderful CQN’rs

     

     

    Raging lunatics?

     

    Everyone knows there is no Sanity Claus.

     

    :)

  42. Greensideup-GBWO on

    Merry Christmas Paul67 and family and to fellow CQNers and their families also. What amazing accomplishments made possible by the generosity of bampots and the like connected by a common thread, truly remarkable.

     

     

    Peace on earth and good will to all

     

     

    God bless

     

     

    gsu

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