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Belfast Café Gives A Helping Hand to Child Scavengers

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Two Belfast businessmen are providing food and coffee to raise funds for food for starving children, at the opening of their new café in Belfast this Friday.

Café PM, brain child of Patrick Magee and Patrick McGowan, is opening its doors to the public for the first time this Friday providing breakfast and lunch in return for a donation to the Belfast charity Tuesday’s Child.

The new sandwich and coffee dock, in North Belfast’s Jennymount Industrial Estate, is serving breakfast from 9 a.m. and lunch from 12 noon until 3.30 p.m.

“We hope to have 500 people through our doors this Friday and are asking people and other local businesses to put their best foot forward to help children who are destitute and starving”, said Patrick Magee. “We are delighted to support the wonderful work of Tuesday’s Child and welcome everyone along to enjoy breakfast or lunch in Café PM”, said Patrick McGowan.

Proceeds of the event will go to providing food for children who scavenge on the city dumps of Nairobi, Kenya, for survival.

“The children rescued from scavenging on city dumps in Nairobi are enrolled in primary school where they also receive breakfast (a bowl of porridge) and lunch (rice and beans). The project is a lifeline to children living in these city slums”, said Orla Sheehan from Tuesday’s Child.

“We visited the rubbish dumps stretching for miles in the slums of Nairobi. It is terrible to see children reduced to sifting through rat infested rubbish for something to eat. How blessed we are to be able to call into a coffee shop and have something to eat and drink. We are so grateful to Café PM for giving proceeds of their launch day to our work for these children”.

Contact: Patrick Magee, patrick@pm-lighting.co.uk Mobile 07788443111 or
Patrick McGeown, Patrick@offthewallcreations.co.uk Mobile 07800579938

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