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A day in the life of 11-year-old Failo from Zambia.

Alison Page’s Corrie’s Capers series is now available to buy in the Mary’s Meals online shop

A kind-hearted Belfast family are running in the Belfast City Marathon event.

We are celebrating our programme in Madagascar, and the people in the communities we serve there who are helping the next generation learn about the importance of conservation.

Summer Nasser, CEO of Yemen Aid, our partner in the country, explains how such living conditions, Mary’s Meals is helping to transform the future for young girls in Yemen.

Thanks to the wonderful response to a previous match funding campaign, we're feeding almost 43,000 children in Liberia every school day.

Three Mary’s Meals supporters are taking on the London Marathon to raise funds to help feed hungry children in some of the world's poorest countries. 

Our Founder Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow met the Pope on 3 February 2025, when he attended the Children’s Rights Summit in the Vatican, the last major event with Pope Francis before his late illness.

The impact of Mary’s Meals stretches far beyond a child’s immediate need for food

Easter reflection from Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, Founder of Mary's Meals

Three generations of a Midlothian family have raised over £35,000 for charity by knitting 6,500 chocolate ‘hats’.

For 10-year-old Orimo from Madagascar, Mary's Meals is fuelling a love of learning. Now, he’s gaining the knowledge and skills that will help him have a brighter future.

We've teamed up with Jean Johansson this National Walking Day.

Our school meals are breaking down barriers to education and equality in India.

On International School Meals Day we show how a simple intervention can change futures.

Actor Wilf Scolding, known for his roles in Star Wars series Andor, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore and The Archers, has leant his support to Mary's Meals' Emergency in Southern Africa appeal.

Our Founder, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow makes a statement following the international aid budget cuts.

In the spirit of the Jubilee’s theme ‘Pilgrims of Hope’, we are inviting all supporters to come together this Holy Year to help to bring hope into situations of hardship.

It’s hard to comprehend how a weather event thousands of miles away can impact farmers in Southern Africa. But it does, and over recent months this impact has been catastrophic in the region, which is facing its worst drought in 100 years. Without major intervention, millions of people – especially children – will face “Crisis” levels of hunger

Zambia continues to endure the relentless consequences of a historic drought.