Marys Meals Zambia

Our idea is a simple one that works. We provide one daily meal in a place of education in order to attract chronically hungry children into a classroom, where they receive an education that can, in the future, be their ladder out of poverty. Marys Meals began by feeding 200 children in Malawi. Today we feed more than one million hungry children every day. In addition to our school feeding projects, which are very much the core of our work, Marys Meals also supports a home for HIV-positive young adults - who were abandoned as children - in Romania. Our work is named after Mary, the mother of Jesus, who brought up her child in poverty. We consist of, we respect and we reach out to people of all faiths and none. The average worldwide cost for us to feed a child for a whole school year is just 15.90/18.30/$21. Wherever possible, Marys Meals uses locally grown food to support the local economy. We work hard to keep our running costs low and to ensure that at least 93 percent of donat...