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Mary’s Meals 2024 – the moments that defined our year

Changing the story together helps us keep our promise to the millions of children who already rely on our meals.

Whether you make them at home or buy them from a market, Christmas decorations continue to create an air of excitement and festive cheer.

Fundraising at Christmas is a fun and engaging way to help us reach the next child waiting for Mary’s Meals.

Most families will spend over £20 on their Christmas dinner this year. But for just £19.15, you can feed a child in their place of education for a whole school year.

Providing a meal to children in their place of education is having a far-reaching impact on the welfare of communities across Zambia’s Eastern Province.

Our school feeding programme is a beacon of hope for entire communities in Zambia, where we currently serve meals to more than 400,000 children.

Following 10 years of Mary’s Meals school feeding in Zambia, we’re now serving daily school meals to more than 400,000 learners.

Mary’s Meals’ latest impact report reveals how school feeding is driving education and health gains across our programme countries.

The annual walk to the village of Knock is an opportunity to experience simple, yet inspirational, acts of kindness from people and supporters along the way.

Expanding our feeding programme in schools requires comprehensive research, planning and assessment from our programme teams.

We’re now reaching more than 110,000 children in Ethiopia with Mary’s Meals, helping to transform lives in the Tigray region.

Mary’s Meals school feeding programme is enabling pre-school children in the Turkana region of northwest Kenya to receive an education. This article documents Christine Atoto's trip with the Mary’s Meals programme operations team to deliver food to three ECDs in Turkana.

Whether it’s becoming a regular giver, fundraising for us or volunteering your time, you can make an incredible difference to the children we serve by getting involved with our charity.

Inspiring stories of fundraising initiatives and events from across the global Mary's Meals family.

Sister Medhin Tesfay speaks at the Medjugorje Youth Festival about working with Mary’s Meals to deliver daily meals to school children in Tigray, Ethiopia.

Breaking through barriers, visually impaired Mercy aspires to become a teacher.

Today on World Refugee Day we share with you two poignant stories of women who were forced to flee their home country of Burundi and now live in Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi.

This World Hunger Day, Mary's Meals founder, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow says famine has no place in the 21st century. Find out more.

Mary's Meals will bring hope to thousands of children on the front line of climate change.