A huge thank you for the recent donations from generous Mary’s Meals supporters:

This week we have received the following:

£150 from Wrekin Inner Wheel – Thanks ladies

£230 from Mr & Mrs Hurley, Newport who held a Garden Party.  Thank you.

Numerous cash donations, including one from a Mrs Connelly in Newport who sold her home made jam! Many thanks

Mary’s Meals Wales are appealing for some dry storage space for the backpacks that have been collected from Schools here in Wales. Our shipping container in Cwmbran is getting damp and we are seeking alternative storage space.

All of the backpacks collected in Wales have now been transfered to the Glasgow warehouse and are scheduled to  join the container leaving port for Africa on the 5th August.

Below are some photos of the Bags being loaded from the Container into the Mary’s Meals van  by Allan and Michael.

Allan loading Backpacks

Backpacks loaded!

If you have any ideas for alternative storage, please contact Nick on  nick.barton@marysmeals.org

The Welsh Assembly staff are in the process of choosing a Charity that they would like to work with and donate to via Payroll Giving.

The Mary’s Meals Wales team, including Nick Barton and volunteers Rosaria Hicks, Elena Phipps and Rhys Bain (Welsh speaker) manned a Mary’s Meals stand in the foyer of the Welsh Assembly office in Cardiff. The CEO of Mary’s Meals Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow was also there handing out leaflets and seeking votes…