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In Turkana, the dangers and logistics of operating a school feeding programme are extreme. Here is a first-hand account of how reaching children in the most difficult of places can change the fate of entire communities.

One mother’s passionate will to change her family’s fate is constantly thwarted by their impossible circumstances.

Mary’s Meals has supported children like Isaac in Haiti since 2006 and currently provides meals for more than 180,000 children.

Mary’s Meals founder, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, talks to a gathering of some of the world’s most illustrious business minds about the ever-worsening global hunger crisis.

We speak with the founder of Feedback Madagascar – Jamie Spencer - about the disastrous effects of climate change on an already struggling nation.

The only food Abak and Aping eat in a typical day is a simple bowl of maize and beans served by Mary’s Meals at their school.

We hear from Father Joson, from our partner BREAD. He runs our programme in India, where Mary’s Meals is currently feeding 64,000 children every school day.

The war in Ukraine is tearing lives and livelihoods apart in villages, towns and cities across the country, with little sign of relief for its beleaguered people. And around the world, people of every nation are already feeling the ripple effects of the devastation in their own day-to-day lives. Hunger is the biggest concern for an increasing number of families.

International Day of Friendship shines a spotlight on the role friendship plays in enriching our lives, as well as entire communities. And, when friendship extends beyond borders, it can play an important part in promoting peace between people from different cultures and backgrounds.

After a visit to Kenya in Mary’s Meals’ 20th year, the founder lays bare the extreme hardships facing children in this increasingly unliveable environment, and makes plain the simple and achievable objective to eliminating child hunger in this world of plenty.

Watch Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, Founder of Mary's Meals, reflect on the organisation's 20th anniversary from the Shed in Dalmally, Scotland – the place where it all began.

Three Mary’s Meals volunteers with one shared goal tell their stories.

Mary’s Meals expands its programme in Madagascar with new partner, Money for Madagascar.

Our UK campaign attracts Hollywood stars of screen and stage.

Join us as we take a look back over the past year at Mary's Meals, reflecting on our milestones and looking ahead to a new year and new chapter.

“The ongoing situation in Tigray is one which should be met with global outrage, political pressure, and an outpouring of support for a desperately needed humanitarian response. Instead, it continues largely unnoticed by a very distracted world.”

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Our newest programme country is one which is in the most urgent need as it faces long-term, and devastating conflict and increasingly difficult conditions.

15-year-old Nohe* tells of his traumatic journey from the outbreak of war in Tigray to becoming captain of his displacement camp’s football team.

In 2002, Mary’s Meals made a promise to the world’s most vulnerable children to provide nutritious daily meals in places of education.

Mary and her younger brother have lived in Zambia with their grandmother, Charity, since the tragic death of their parents. However, Charity is in poor health and the burden of both the housework and providing for the family therefore falls to ten-year-old Mary.