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A few of the standout moments and milestones that we celebrated this year

This Christmas, for less than £20, you can give a child the gift of daily meals for an entire school year. For Mohamad, Georgina, and Efigénia, it is more than just a donation – it’s the hope of a better, brighter future.

Volunteers are the lifeblood of Mary’s Meals, ensuring children receive daily meals at school. For Ikhlas, Linda, and Énia, volunteering is a responsibility that brings hope to the children we serve.

In Lebanon, Liberia, and Mozambique, daily school meals are transforming children’s lives.
For school directors Jose, Samuel, and Naicy, Mary’s Meals offers more than nourishment — it brings hope for a brighter future.

Mary’s Meals Content Manager Steph Bungay travelled to Malawi this year and met Estele, a young mum. Estele spoke of the devastation that poverty and hunger is having on her family and why Mary’s Meals is helping to give her children a better childhood.

Mary’s Meals serves daily school meals to over 3 million children worldwide. By providing vital food to those facing poverty and hunger, our programmes also offer hope for a better future. This Christmas, we need your help to reach every child waiting.

Give Hope This Christmas by providing life-changing school meals to children in need.

Tens of thousands of volunteers support Mary’s Meals by serving school meals, even while facing poverty themselves. As we celebrate feeding over 3 million children daily, two Malawian mothers share why being part of the programme matters.

Amid worsening climate and financial hardship in rural Malawi, Alesi Simati’s family faces repeated crop failures and food insecurity. The arrival of Mary’s Meals at their local school has brought vital relief.

Steph Bungay, Mary’s Meals Content Manager, recently visited Namingwere Primary in southern Malawi—one of hundreds of schools newly added to the programme this year—as part of an expansion now feeding over 3 million children daily.

In a remote Malawian village where hunger has held back progress, the arrival of Mary’s Meals at Namingwere Primary is driving change - part of this year’s expansion that now feeds over 3 million children daily worldwide.

The provision of a daily meal in their place of education is improving children’s health and
increasing school enrolment in rural Zimbabwe.

Twelve-year-old Tanaka is one of over 3 million children now receiving daily meals through Mary’s Meals, thanks to a recent expansion that brought school feeding to every pupil at her school in Zimbabwe.

Mary’s Meals expanded in Zimbabwe in early 2025, reaching 68,000 more children. As we mark more than 3 million fed globally, Communications Director Felicity Read reflects on the programme’s impact in remote areas.

Mary’s Meals began more than 20 years ago with the vision that every child in the world receives one daily meal in their place of education. Today, we are reaching more than 3 million children and with every meal there is hope of a better future.

Read a thoughtful message from Magnus as we mark the milestone of serving over 3 million children a nutritious meal in their place of education, every school day.

The impact of our daily school meals goes far beyond reducing a child’s immediate hunger – it can help to unlock potential, strengthen communities and inspire change.

The promise of providing daily school meals encourages children into the classroom, giving them the opportunity to receive an education and the hope of a brighter future.

Teachers, parents and volunteers come together to run the school feeding programme – helping to build connections, cooperation and hope across the community.

Daily school meals can have a transformative effect on children living in poverty – helping them to grow, their families to thrive and enabling their communities to break the cycle of poverty they live in.