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This World Food Day, we celebrate food changing the story for more than 2.2 million children enrolled in our school feeding programme.

Serving a daily meal in a place of learning doesn't just address the immediate need of hungry children - these meals can be life-changing for whole families.

To break up the eight-mile trek to and from class, three primary school learners used to hide in the shade of a guava tree, tired and hungry. Some days they didn’t even make it to school. Thankfully, the arrival of Mary’s Meals changed everything.

Returning to teach in the school where she received Mary’s Meals as a refugee from Myanmar, Sandar reflects on the significance that a daily meal in her place of learning had on her life.

There are millions of children not fulfilling their potential in school because they simply don’t have enough food to eat.

More than seven years of an unrelenting civil war have devastated the country of Yemen and its people. Thousands are dead, and an estimated 4.2 million people displaced.

New research from Mary’s Meals highlights the profound impact of school feeding in early childhood education.

Find out how daily meals served by Mary’s Meals are giving a teacher hope for the children of Malawi and beyond.

We were delighted when former Mary's Meals recipient, Fortunate, contacted us out of the blue! He received Mary's Meals at school as a child and has since gone on to become a chemical engineer.

Michael loves to play; he says it makes him happy. He finds schoolwork fun and interesting too but worries when he feels like he can’t focus on it properly.

Favour is a bright young girl who keeps up to date on current affairs and yearns to travel. The knock-on effect of the war in Ukraine is being felt by her community in Malawi. Read what she has to say about the rising cost of living and the impact it’s having.

Naomi Wanyoike joined Mary’s Meals as East Africa Programme Partner Coordinator two months ago. Here, she talks about the realities facing children and communities across the region during this devastating hunger crisis.

Today, on International Day of Charity, we are celebrating some of the young people whose lives are being transformed with the promise of a daily meal at school.

In Turkana, the dangers and logistics of operating a school feeding programme are extreme. Here is a first-hand account of how reaching children in the most difficult of places can change the fate of entire communities.

One mother’s passionate will to change her family’s fate is constantly thwarted by their impossible circumstances.

Mary’s Meals has supported children like Isaac in Haiti since 2006 and currently provides meals for more than 180,000 children.

Mary’s Meals founder, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, talks to a gathering of some of the world’s most illustrious business minds about the ever-worsening global hunger crisis.

We speak with the founder of Feedback Madagascar – Jamie Spencer - about the disastrous effects of climate change on an already struggling nation.

The only food Abak and Aping eat in a typical day is a simple bowl of maize and beans served by Mary’s Meals at their school.

We hear from Father Joson, from our partner BREAD. He runs our programme in India, where Mary’s Meals is currently feeding 64,000 children every school day.