Mary's Meals

About Mary's Meals: Mary's Meals began in Malawi in 2002 after its founder Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow met a young woman called Emma who was dying from AIDS. She was sitting on the mud floor of her hut surrounded by her children. When Magnus asked her 14-year-old son, Edward, what his dreams were in life, his stark reply was: "To have enough food to eat and to go to school one day". This was a key part of the inspiration that led to the Mary's Meals campaign. Mary's Meals, which began feeding 200 children in one school in Malawi in 2002, now reaches 1,257,278 children with a daily meal in their place of education in 15 countries, including Malawi, India, Kenya, Lebanon, South Sudan, Haiti, Syria and Ethiopia. By providing a daily meal in a place of education, Mary's Meals encourages chronically hungry children into the classroom - often for the first time - where they can gain an education that can provide a route out of poverty. It costs just $19.50 to feed a child for a whole school year through Mary's Meals. The charity is committed to keeping its costs low and spends at least $.93 cents of every $1 donated on its charitable works.