{"id":876,"date":"2013-03-13T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.scoilnet.ie\/blog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2013-03-13T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:01:43","slug":"24-hour-fast-for-bothar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/2013\/03\/13\/24-hour-fast-for-bothar\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Hour Fast for B\u00f3thar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, 4<sup>th<\/sup> March, fifth and sixth class from St Colmcille\u2019s P.S. began and subsequently survived a 24 hour fast in aid of B\u00f3thar while sponsored by Spin SW. The 34 students who took part received sponsorship cards to collect much needed funds for a worthy cause. Mrs. Fogarty, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Doyle also fasted in solidarity with the troops.<\/p>\n<p>We began our 24 hour fast on Sunday night, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> March at 7pm. Prior to beginning the fast the majority of us had big meals, like camels filling their humps. On Monday we arrived to school weak with the hunger but happy in the knowledge that our efforts would reap fruitful rewards for less fortunate human beings inAfrica. As our insides rumbled uncontrollably we revived our famished bodies with some nourishing soup supplied by \u2018Caf\u00e9 enMaine\u2019 at lunchtime on Monday. Some children treated their cups of soup like gold dust.<\/p>\n<p>As school finished on Monday we felt relieved we had come so far but the final few hours before 7 o\u2019clock proved the most testing. At 7.01 pm we all sat down to meals fit for Kings. After stuffing ourselves we felt satisfied that we had made a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether we raised \u20ac905 and we presented it to Niamh Mulqueen from B\u00f3thar on Monday, 11<sup>th<\/sup> March. She was extremely grateful and promised to spend the money wisely. It was a difficult challenge for all the students that took part but also a very worthwhile learning experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.scoilnet.ie\/blog\/files\/2013\/03\/Bothar-Water-Flag-Presentation-007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-877\" src=\"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.scoilnet.ie\/blog\/files\/2013\/03\/Bothar-Water-Flag-Presentation-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.scoilnet.ie\/blog\/files\/2013\/03\/Bothar-Water-Flag-Presentation-012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-878\" src=\"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.scoilnet.ie\/blog\/files\/2013\/03\/Bothar-Water-Flag-Presentation-012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, 4th March, fifth and sixth class from St Colmcille\u2019s P.S. began and subsequently survived a 24 hour fast in aid of B\u00f3thar while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}