" Christmas Wishes from Celtic Park to Africa "

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" Christmas Wishes from Celtic Park to Africa "

Postby Joe O'Rourke » Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:27 am

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Myself with Father Willie Brandon handing over a cheque for £3,500.

On Tuesday December 22nd I travelled through to Dunblane the headquarters of the Society of African Missions (SMA) to hand over a cheque for £3,500, this is the latest donation to the Walfrid Well's Fund. The fund was started about two years ago to provide the finances to open wells for clean water in villages in Africa; mainly in Northern Nigeria; to date it has raised over £30,000; a magnificent achievement, added to all the other worthy causes which have been supported by the Celtic fans in that time; it is really remarkable.

This all started when the Association was looking for some way to follow in the charitable footsteps of Brother Walfrid, we looked at various options but decided that providing clean water for the children in Africa was the most appropriate, I knew the two priests involved Fr Pat Mc Guire and Fr Willie Brandon and through discussions with them the fund was set up. It costs approximately £250 to open a well; in the present consumer world we live in that doesn't go very far, but for them it means an awful lot. In most of the villages the women are sent to draw water from a source which is usually about five or six hours walk away, they draw the water at night so that it is cool which means setting out at 6PM and returning at 6am just in time to get the kids ready for school and the men to go into the fields for the day.

There has been a magnificent response to the fund from the Celtic fans and their families, people have been dedicating them to loved ones who have passed away, as birthday presents to older members of their families, and clubs have been dedicating them to their own members, one of the recent donation was for over £800 from the Kinning Park CSC, we also had a donation of £750 from Port Glasgow No 1 branch; they dedicated three wells to their three oldest members, the Association donated another £1000, and there is a substantial donation on the way from the Scarborough branch in Ontario, Canada there has also been individual donations from the Devlin family in Port Glasgow and from Rosie O'Brian in Govan, all these donations are gratefully received and most welcome.

If anyone would like to donate to the wells or needs any more information please feel free to contact me. Let me take this opportunity to wish all Celtic supporters and their families a very Happy Christmas and a "Champion New Year"

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Re: " Christmas Wishes from Celtic Park to Africa "

Postby celticbobo » Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:53 pm

Hi Joe are the tickets still available for the Celtic shirt with the famine cross on it. I see a link for it on your website.Can you tell me was there a badge like that on a Hooped shirt.Would the club not produce a special shirt for that occasion for supporters to purchase. Many thanks Mark.

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Re: " Christmas Wishes from Celtic Park to Africa "

Postby Joe O'Rourke » Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:49 am

Mark
The shirt advertised on our site was actually the Celtic Tust's shirt and i'm afraid the raffle has already been drawn.
Celtic have never had a hooped shirt with that badge, that was the first time it was used but i'm sure they will do it again next year to commemorate the Famine again; so where we are playing will determine what shirt it is on.
As for doing a special shirt i'll contact Adrian Filby ( Commercial Director ) and put the suggestion to him, i suspect it would have to be the kind of shirt which would be cheap to produce for them to go for it just incase it didn't sell, i'll post his response.
Joe


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