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A Dumbarton police officer’s plan to have 100 pairs of legs waxed for Mary’s Meals’ Haiti appeal got off to a sore but successful start last weekend.
PC Willie Crowe and ten friends gathered outside ASDA, Dumbarton on Sunday to have hairs removed in front of passing shoppers.
The event is the first in a series planned over the next year. Willie hopes to recruit [...]
Mary’s Meals supporters and fundraisers are always impressing staff with their exciting and original ideas, but it is not often that one comes up that gets the whole office singing along.
Inspired by Friedrich Moller’s The Happy Wanderer, members of the congregation at Hurst Green Church have created the ‘The Backpack Song’, a musical celebration of [...]
Friday was a special day for a group of young Celtic fans, who visited Celtic Park to present a giant cheque to Mary’s Meals.
The donation of £250, from the Celtic Trust, was handed to John Thompson from Mary’s Meals in front of the stands at the football ground.
The money raised will go towards Mary’s Meals work in Haiti, providing school meals, fresh water and medical [...]
Our thanks to everyone who has taken up the challenge to fundraise for Mary’s Meals. Our appeal for Haiti is continuing to inspire people to fundraise and we are very grateful indeed. There is so much going on but here is just a small selection to give you a flavour of what’s been happening.
Pupils at [...]
Lots of our friends and supporters have suggested that Mary’s Meals introduce e-cards, as a way to raise money through the web and to let more people know about what we are doing.
We think it’s a great idea, and we are working on developing the best way to make these cards available.
In the meantime, with [...]
Mary’s Meals has always been able to rely on the generosity, enthusiasm and ingenuity of its supporters, and that has never been more true than in the last fortnight.
Since the earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, we have received many letters, calls and e-mails, contributing to our appeal, making suggestions and offering words of support.
From school-children to church groups, [...]
Mary’s Meals is asking for help with our emergency work in Haiti.
Until now, we have been feeding 12,000 children across the poverty stricken country. Our seven schools in Cite Soleil, a slum in Port au Prince, have been damaged, but not destroyed.
We will be working to help repair and rebuild these schools, to support their pupils and [...]
Despite the cold weather, supporters have been busy fundraising over the holiday period, helping Mary’s Meals to get 2010 off to a great start.
The 10 for 10 sponsored walk, in memory of the Motherwell FC captain Phil O’Donnell, was held on Tuesday, December 29. Participants braved cold conditions to walk ten miles from Fir Park in Motherwell to Parkhead, [...]
December may be busy, but Mary’s Meals supporters have still found time to raise money and help us make Christmas extra special.
From Dumaguete City in the Philippines, where volunteers will be busy carol singing and collecting donations of groceries for street children, to Byers Road in Glasgow, where a team will take part in a street collection, there has [...]
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