Meitheal Leaders 1st Year Football Tournament Raises €400 for Ulemu Project in Malawi
The Meitheal Leaders ran a football tournament for 1st Years before Easter to raise money for the Ulemu Project in Malawi. Thank you to the Meitheal Leaders for organising this fundraising event and to the 1st Years who contributed to it. Well done to Sam Sheil who was awarded Player of the Tournament.
Naas CBS are sending €400 directly to the people of Malawi which will be spent on food and medication. The Meitheal schools in the Kildare and Leighlin Diocese raised over €6000* collectively for the Ulemu Project.
With this money, a daily meal is provided for 300 children in eight pre-school nurseries during the hunger season – the months before the harvest is ready. The money also funds the testing and treatment of Malaria at a local clinic so that people suffering with the illness do not have to make the 7km round trip on foot to the nearest health clinic.
Please click on the link below to hear from the founder of the Ulemu Project, Evin Joyce who lives in Malawi and works on the ground helping the local people. Listening to Evin, it is clear that even a small fundraising effort can make such a positive difference to the lives of people who are so badly off.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tugYGKte-50r4FvY04eiPyR4xezH9PjC/view?usp=sharing
*€3000 was raised at the time the video was recorded.
Ms. M. Murphy
(Meitheal Coordinator)