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Making hope possible

An Easter message from our Founder, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow

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Our Founder, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, shares a heartfelt reflection on the power of hope and the promise of brighter days ahead. 

Magnus says: "I think that each of you, regardless of your personal beliefs, or your particular role in the Mary’s Meals family, can joyfully celebrate hope together this Easter. In villages across Haiti, Malawi, Zambia, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Madagascar and other countries too, children and their parents are living lives transformed by a hope which is provided and sustained by each meal served in their school. We should celebrate those meals together! And we should celebrate the profound goodness of this Mary’s Meals family that, regardless of the season, continues to ensure that hope prevails – a hope needed in a particular way by the children we serve but by our whole human family too.

"Thank you for your choice, for your faithfulness, and for every single thing you do for the children of Mary’s Meals."

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