Turn your leftover holiday money into meals

With the summer here, many of us are jetting off on holidays abroad. However, when we get back home, it’s so easy to leave leftover foreign currency lying around, unsure when we’ll use it next – and then we forget all about it.

That’s where our foreign currency initiative comes in!

Did you know Mary’s Meals can turn your forgotten foreign coins and notes into meals for hungry children? We can also take British coins and notes that are no longer legal tender.

You can help us turn unused foreign money into meals by organising a foreign currency collection at your workplace, school, church or simply around your home. Mary’s Meals will provide envelopes and boxes for collections and instructions on how to pay in your donation.

It costs just 10p a day to feed a child with Mary’s Meals, and £19.15 to provide meals for a child for a whole school year, so any amount raised from your collection will make a big difference. 

By organising your own foreign currency fundraiser, you could help us reach more children like Ivy in Malawi.

She says: “[Mary’s Meals] porridge gives me enough energy to learn better. After eating porridge, I actively take part in class and the porridge keeps me healthy.

“If there was no porridge at school, it could have been difficult for me to understand what the teachers teach due to hunger.”

Gerrard McMahon, Supporter Engagement Officer for London and South East (North & West), says: “We’d love for you to set up your own foreign currency collection, and with the summer holidays upon us there’s never been a better time! If you and your colleagues, family or friends have got old coins and notes sitting about in drawers and wallets, don’t let them go to waste. We can turn them into nutritious meals and hope for a better future for Ivy and the more than 2.6 million children we feed every school day.”

For more information on starting a foreign currency collection or to request envelopes/boxes please email info@marysmeals.org.