Mary's Meals Canada
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Mission Statement
Mary's Meals is a global movement supported by people from many walks of life and different backgrounds. Our mission is to enable people to offer their money, goods, skills, time, or prayer, and through this involvement, provide the most effective help to those suffering the effects of extreme poverty in the worlds poorest communities. We welcome all into the Mary's Meals family and we believe everyone has something important to contribute to the realization of our vision. Our vision is that every child receives one daily meal in their place of education and that all those who have more than they need share with those who lack even the most basic things. Working together with those who share our vision, we believe there is no good reason why this cannot be realized. "What's important to us is the hungry child. When there are hungry children in front of us today, we're going to feed them, and at the same time we're going to work on the solution to getting them fed in the long term, creating a global movement of people who believe in this vision." Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, Mary's Meals Founder and CEO
About This Cause
Mary’s Meals is a global movement that sets up school feeding projects in some of the world’s poorest communities, where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. Our idea is a simple one that works. We provide one daily meal in a place of learning in order to attract chronically poor children into the classroom, where they receive an education that can, in the future, be their ladder out of poverty. Mary’s Meals was born in 2002 when Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, from Scotland, visited Malawi during a famine and met a mother dying from AIDS. When Magnus asked her eldest son Edward what his dreams were in life, he replied simply: “I want to have enough food to eat and to go to school one day.” That moment was a key part of the inspiration which led to the founding of Mary’s Meals, which began by feeding just 200 children. Currently, we are feeding over 1, 838,859 million children every school day in 19 countries including Malawi, Liberia, Kenya, Zambia, Haiti, Uganda, South Sudan, Thailand and India. Mary’s Meals Canada currently supports school feeding programs in Malawi, Kenya, Zambia and India where it costs just $26.40 to feed a child for a full school year, only $0.13 cents per meal, so it’s easy to have a huge impact on a child’s life! Every child deserves an education and enough to eat.