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Students cause a stir
After a short visit to the Mary’s Meals Malawi HQ and a meet and greet with the ground staff, we visited a local girls school just outside Limbe, in Blantyre. Meeting with the principal gave us a better understanding of how essential Mary’s Meals is. “It’s Monday, so we have full attendance today. Some of [...]
Backpack delivery diary
Gillian Boyle, Logistics Manager in Malawi, organised Mary’s Meals first delivery of backpacks to schools on Likoma and Chizumulu, remote islands on Lake Malawi. This is her report. Monday Having loaded our truck with backpacks, footballs, crayons, notepads, paper and pencil cases, the distribution team made an early start. We were full of excitement, as it was [...]
Rocket stoves ready for take-off
When we arrive, the community are seated on the ground around a temporary shelter in a big semi circle. There must be 200 people here, and they are clearly happy that school feeding will begin next Monday. The Mary’s Meals team are demonstrating how to cook likuni phala (the maize-based porridge that we provide for children in Malawi) on [...]
Getting an early start
The under-six centre is bustling with expectation when Nelia (the field manager) and I arrive. The children give us an overwhelming welcome, singing and clapping. They have just finished eating their morning meal of likuni phala and will be given a second meal of ‘nsima’ made from maize meal, with dried fish and fresh tomatoes, before [...]
Looking back in Liberia
“It isn’t so much about guns. We in this country need to disarm our hearts,” Moses told me.
Abu Dhabi support for Mary’s Meals
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, chief executive of Mary’s Meals, meets supporters at St Joseph’s Parish in Abu Dhabi, where incredible amounts of money has been raised for Mary’s Meals.
