Philippines
Mary’s Meals began working in the Philippines in 2006. We provide meals to impoverished school pupils and to children living or working on the streets of Dumaguete City. We also provide feeding to a community on the outskirts of the city.
School Feeding
Mary’s Meals provides daily meals in 3 schools for children living in a shanty town area of Dumaguete City.
Street Children Outreach
Three times a week the Mary’s Meals volunteers set up tables at the road side and serve up hot food to children who work as street vendors or beggars on the city streets. For many, home is somewhere outside the city and too distant to return to each evening. They are vulnerable to exploitation and are often hungry and lonely. As well as the food the children receive friendship and help. The volunteers often distribute school supplies to encourage the children to attend school.
Community Support
We provide food to families who were displaced by war and now struggle to earn a living from quarrying stone. Many of the children’s mothers leave to find work in the city. Mary’s Meals volunteers are developing a feeding project and investigating other ways they might be able to help such as setting up gardening projects.
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