Set the table for One More this Christmas

Staggering Results from Malawi

Here is a recent letter from Magnus (the founder of Mary's Meals)

Dear friend,

Recently we’ve been doing lots of work to measure the impact of Mary’s Meals.

The early results are truly staggering, giving compelling evidence that this simple thing we do – providing a daily meal in school – really does transform the lives of children and their communities.

When we began our monitoring work in specific schools, more than half of the pupils told us they found it difficult to join lessons because of hunger. Now, that number has fallen dramatically to 7%.

We will be publishing an independently verified report later this year, but we can already see that these are impressive results. Perhaps even more wonderful are the results based on children’s happiness.

Before our monitoring began, we asked children if they were happy at school, and just over half said yes. When we asked the same question seven months later – after they’d been receiving Mary’s Meals – nine out of 10 children said they were happy. That’s a lot of extra smiles and a huge amount of new laughter.

We hope the evidence of what actually happens when children eat every day at school will encourage even more people to join us as we work to realize our vision; that every child receives one daily meal in their place of education.

God bless,

Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, founder and Chief Executive

Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow's New Book

Magnus (the founder of Mary's Meals) has a book that is coming out next month. The book is available for pre-order on Amazon.
Magnus will be having a book sigingin in Solon, Iowa. It will be a open house on  May 29th from 6:30PM-8:30PM at St. Mary's church in Solon, Iowa.