Mary’s Meals International Organisation

Mary’s Meals International is an international charity that sets up school feeding programmes in some of the world’s poorest communities, where poverty and hunger often prevent children from gaining an education. Our idea is a simple one that works. We provide one daily meal in a place of learning to bring children from vulnerable communities into the classroom, where they receive an education that can, in the future, be their ladder out of poverty.
With over 20 years of experience, we are leaders in the field of school feeding programmes. Every school day, we reach more than 2.4 million children across 16 countries: Benin, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
In schools where our daily meals are served, hunger is reduced, enrolment increases, attendance improves, drop-out rates fall, absences dwindle, concentration in lessons is heightened, participation levels increase, communities worry less about children