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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 [...]
Mary’s Meals looks to build on success of joint venture in Somalia
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, founder and CEO of Mary’s Meals, has arrived back in Scotland having helped to deliver over 20 tonnes of food aid to the thousands of starving people filling makeshift refugee camps in and around the Somalian capital, Mogadishu. “The trip went well and was without major incident, for which we have much to [...]
Mary’s Meals appoints London co-ordinator
Well-known Scottish musician Colin MacIntyre (Mull Historical Society) has been appointed Mary’s Meals London coordinator, the charity’s first regional post in England. Prior to his appointment to this new post, Colin had been active over a number of years in contributing his time, energy and organisational skills to supporting fundraising events on behalf of Mary’s [...]
Mary’s Meals delivers first batch of food aid to Somalia
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, Chief Executive of Mary’s Meals, flew into the Somalian capital Mogadishu on Wednesday 7 September aboard a plane carrying much needed food aid for a country in the grip of famine and drought. It is estimated that 3.7 million people, almost half the population, in Somalia are now suffering from a humanitarian crisis. [...]
Help from Mary’s Meals on way to Somalia
The first batch of food aid to help children and families facing starvation in East Africa has been loaded onto a plane bound for Somalia. Mary’s Meals has teamed up with the African relief agency Gift of the Givers to provide around 900,000 meals for those affected by the famine in Somalia. The emergency response [...]
