NEWS
Dermot supports Big Blue Mug campaign
Top TV and radio personality Dermot O’Leary has given his backing to a campaign launched by Mary’s Meals aimed at providing more of the world’s hungriest children with life-changing meals. Our ‘Big Blue Mug’ campaign invites people to get their hands on a bright blue mug – similar to those we use to provide Mary’s [...]
Mary’s Meals announce first open day in England
Mary’s Meals will be holding its first open day in England. Everyone is welcome to attend the day on Saturday, April 21st, which also marks a 10-year celebration of Mary’s Meals. The family event will include updates on our work, music, and a talk from Mary’s Meals founder, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow. The event will be held at [...]
New costs for providing Mary’s Meals
The new costs of feeding a child with Mary’s Meals for a whole school year have been confirmed for 2012. We have been able to keep the costs of providing Mary’s Meals low with the average global cost for this year being just £10.70. This has increased by £1.30 compared to last year largely due [...]
Backpacks to bring joy to hungry children in Kenya
Backpacks, filled with basic educational items, are on their way to Kenya to benefit children who have been affected by the East Africa crisis. Mary’s Meals is sending backpacks to western Kenya where they will be distributed among four schools in Eldoret. Thousands of children at Kimalel Primary, Langas Primary, Racecourse Primary and Kipkaren Primary [...]
Mary’s Meals feeds over 600,000 hungry children
Mary’s Meals is now feeding over 600,000 hungry children in some of the poorest countries in the world. After reaching the milestone of half a million children at the start of this year, the continued support and generosity of supporters for the charity has enabled an extra 100,705 children to receive a daily meal in [...]
Quarter of a million backpacks sent overseas by Mary’s Meals
Mary’s Meals is sending a further 6,000 backpacks – filled with basic educational resources like pens and books – to hungry children in Malawi, bringing the total number of backpacks sent overseas by the charity to a staggering 250,000. School children from St Monica’s Primary School in Glasgow helped volunteers and warehouse staff celebrate by lending a [...]
One Porridge partnership to feed hungry children
Mary’s Meals is delighted to announce a new partnership with the One Foundation which will help transform the lives of tens of thousands of children in Africa. The charity, which feeds the world’s poorest children in a place of education, will receive a donation from each packet of One Oaty Goodness Porridge sold in UK [...]
Eye witness account of drought stricken northern Kenya
Looking down past the wing, it gets drier and drier as we fly north from Nairobi to Lodwar, the biggest city in Turkana, the region of Kenya where drought has brought thousands of nomadic pastoralists to the brink of survival. Farmland gives way to a parched rocky landscape where withering temperatures, lack of water and [...]
Mary’s Meals Founder and CEO personal account of his experience in Somalia
The gargantuan cargo plane sat contentedly on the runway at Kamuzu International Airport, Malawi’s international airport, it’s enormous belly filled with 20 tonnes of porridge. Know in Malawi as Likuni Phala, this very nutritious porridge is what we use to provide children in Malawi with daily school meals. Normally Mary’s Meals buys food from within [...]
