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 9 cents (US)
Cost per meal in Malawi = 4 pence / 5 cents (Euros) and 6 cents (US)
Number of chronically hungry children in the world = 300 million. Around 67 million of these children are out of school.
Number of backpacks sent overseas in 2011 = 46,567
Total number of backpacks delivered to date = 255,218
Number of children receiving a daily meal in their place of education:
Albania - 20 | Benin – 430 | Bosnia – 24 | Burma – 281 | Ecuador – 188 | Haiti – 17,277 | India – 4,170 | Kenya – 18,243 | Liberia – 39,664 | Malawi – 510,140 | Philippines – 2,000 | South Sudan – 3,250 | Sudan – 166 | Thailand – 677 | Uganda – 3,651 | Ukraine – 524 Global Total = 600,705
In addition to school feeding projects, Mary’s Meals runs a children’s home project in Romania and is currently providing an emergency response to children and adults in famine-hit Somalia.
