ABOUT US
Mary’s Meals is an international movement to set up school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education.
Mary’s Meals provides daily meals in school for over 600,000 children in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and South America. Use the buttons below to find out more about Mary’s Meals.
Child protection
Mary’s Meals is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children in all the contexts in which we work. Children are at the core of our mission and are the main beneficiaries of all of our programmes. We believe that it is essential that the children we support are protected from harm and able [...]
Mary’s Meals Key Figures
Total number of children receiving a daily meal in school = 600,705 Average global cost of Mary’s Meals per child, per year = £10.70 / €12.40 / $16.80 Cost of Mary’s Meals per child, per year in Malawi = £7 / €8.15 / $11 Worldwide average cost per meal = 6 pence / 7 cents (Euros) and [...]
How Mary’s Meals works
Mary’s Meals provides daily meals to chronically hungry children in their local school. In this way the hungry child is encouraged to attend school and, through education, gain a better future for himself and his community. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [/columns] [/columns]
Story behind Mary’s Meals
Mary’s Meals began in 2002 as a one-off school feeding programme by Scottish International Relief. Today, Mary’s Meals feeds over 600,000 children daily.
£7 feeds a child for a year
People are always surprised by how little it costs to provide a child with Mary’s Meals for a year in Malawi – £7 per child in Malawi and an average £10.70 per child globally. How do we keep our costs so low? Buying Food Locally Wherever possible we purchase locally produced food for use in the meals [...]
How we spend your donations
Mary’s Meals has become known as ‘the charity that operates out of a tin shed’ and has low running costs. We are proud of that reputation and work extremely hard to maintain it. Mary’s Meals is funded almost entirely by individual donors. Some give a one-off donation, others pledge an amount monthly or annually. We [...]
