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We reflect on the impact of our school feeding programme in Zambia and our journey so far.

MasterChef and long-time Mary’s Meals supporter, Gary Maclean, is encouraging the nation to take part in the Mary’s Meals Deals Challenge.

We recently welcomed Angela Chipeta-Khonje, Country Director of Mary’s Meals Malawi, to our offices in Glasgow. Watch, or read on, to hear her tell us about the important work Mary's Meals is doing in Malawi.

A group of dedicated Mary’s Meals volunteers from Shropshire took on a tough physical challenge in September, raising more than £6,000 to help us feed hungry children.

Our nutritious meals are served to more than 2.4 million children every school day in 17 countries worldwide. No two contexts are the same, but the communities we work with are all carefully selected as places of great need, where factors such as extreme poverty, conflict, and climate-related issues drive up rates of child malnutrition and hinder access to education.

Each gift made toward our Crisis in Ethiopia appeal is already making a tangible difference in children’s lives, having enabled us to grow our programme very rapidly. Instead of providing 24,000 children in Tigray with daily meals – as we were previously – we are now reaching more than 110,000.

Transformers enthusiasts are raising vital funds for millions of hungry children around the world.

Have you ever wondered how Mary’s Meals chooses the countries, schools and partners for our school feeding programme? With so many children across the world in need of daily meals in school, how do our teams make these important decisions? We take a look at our newest school feeding programme, in Mozambique, and share more about some of the considerations and decisions we make before expanding into a new country.

It is a shocking thing that around the world, so many girls are missing out on an education that could be their ladder out of poverty. Only 49% of countries have gender parity in terms of primary school attendance and this has wider consequences – for the girls themselves, their families and their communities. An educated girl has far better outcomes in terms of health and her ability to earn a living.

A young teenager from Edinburgh cycled the famous West Highland Way in just 25 hours to raise funds for hungry children. Cameron Hutchison, 13, and his dad, Colin, 55, took on the challenge on mountain bikes for Mary’s Meals on June 20.

A roundup of news from Mary's Meals in Northern Ireland

Fighting for education in the face of climate change

A look into the identity of Promise Pledgers and how we came up with it.

The pledge: Every child deserves an education and enough food to eat

Saleha is seven years old and in grade two at school in Yemen – where more than half of the population don’t have enough to eat. The deadly civil war in the Middle Eastern country has been ongoing since 2014 and at least one in four schools in the country have been destroyed, damaged or are no longer in use for education.

Isatu lives in Grand Cape Mount County in Liberia, an area not too far from the school she attends. At 16 years old, she is among the oldest in her grade six class and like many other girls from her community, is aware of the ingrained beliefs about gender roles that say girls should wash dishes, cook, clean the house, and wash clothes.

Mantasha, 12, has had a difficult childhood. Her mother sadly died of tuberculosis when Mantasha was just six-years-old and her father was left disabled and unable to work after he also contracted the same disease. The family soon moved to Delhi because Mantasha’s aunt lives there and her father was hoping she could help to support his children.  

We want to let those elected to parliament know that we care about those beyond our borders. Not only do we care, we want to do something that could change their lives.

With help from our local partners, we continue to attract children to school in the midst of unrest in Haiti, described locally as ‘way worse than what you see in the news’

Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, Founder of Mary's Meals, reflects on his recent visit to the Tigray region of Ethiopia