THROUGH HER blog, NeverSeconds, Martha Payne has raised more than £130,000 for the charity Mary’s Meals. Now the 10-year-old Scottish schoolgirl has been feted as Young Fundraiser of the Year at the Daily Mirror’s Pride of Britain Awards night, which honours ordinary people who have acted courageously in difficult situations. Martha’s blog reflects on school food while raising money for Mary’s Meals, the charity inspired by Marian devotion, which seeks to provide meals for children in developing countries. The money raised via her blog has built a kitchen shelter and fed an entire school in Malawi for a year.
Martha, a keen cook, received the award on Monday from Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, the judges of the BBC2 series The Great British
12 October 2013, The Tablet
Martha’s pride
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Thank you for this. It reminds me of another very sad priest death last December, the death in a road accident in Co Cork of Fr Joe McGuane, a friend of mine since our time together with Fr Michael Hollings in SOUTHALL in the early 1970s.
My immediate family concern is how these great priests are to be replaced especially at a time when communities are being left without the presence of an ordained priest.
Thank yoi for updating us. I haven't been able to go to that particular chain of supermarkets since that horrific news, without thinking of Fr. Joe. It's comforting to know that he is being remembered. Also, very impressed at the 30-40 daily Mass attendees- a testament to what an excellent job he did as a priest.