Mary’s Meals

$21 feeds a hungry child one meal per day for the entire school year in their place of learning.

Mary’s Meals is named after Our Blessed Mother. Mary’s Meals is a simple idea…they provide one meal per day for hungry children at a place of learning. This keeps kids coming to school. They started in 2002 feeding 200 hungry children in Malawi, and today they feed 2.2 million children every day in 20 countries across four continents. A problem in the developing world is that hungry children don’t regularly attend school. We know that the promise of a daily meal in school makes a huge difference to children living in poverty – addressing their immediate hunger but also giving them energy to learn and hope for a better future.

MARY’S MEALS is always a partnership between MARY’S MEALS and the community –MARY’S MEALS provides the food, but the community has to grow and care for a simple garden to supplement the meals, build a kitchen (which MARY’S MEALS outfits) and provide volunteers to cook and serve the food. It energizes and motivates the community to value education. MARY’S MEALS is a simple idea that works. They provide school meals to help hungry children to gain an education which could be a ladder out of poverty.

MARY’S MEALS is an efficient charity with over 93% of funds raised going directly to the mission of feeding hungry children in a place of learning. If you were to donate $21 to MARY’S MEALS you could feed a child one meal a day for a year in their place of learning.

As Mother Theresa and St. Therese of Lisieux advocated: Little acts of love can make a big impact in the world. Today there are 61 million children in the world who miss school because of poverty and hunger. There is much more to do.

If you want to learn more go to marysmeal.org. Or go to youtube and look for a short video called Child 31 to see what MARY’S MEALS is doing in the world.