Albania
In Albania Mary’s Meals offers help to vulnerable families and school children living in mountain villages.
Winter Food for Vulnerable Families
Mary’s Meals is supporting families who live in remote villages in the mountains in Mirdita district. These villages became vast forced labour camps under the country’s repressive communist regime for political prisoners. When communism ended most returned to their former homes and only those too poor, or rendered too helpless by their harsh experiences, remained. Many struggle to eke out an existence but food supplies often run out during the long, severe winters. Mary’s Meals provisions 80 of the most vulnerable families with supplies of flour each autumn to help them through the most difficult months.
School Feeding
Working with our local partners in Projekt Albanien we provide Mary’s Meals in 3 schools in mountain villages in Mirdita. The meals here take the form of a vitamin enriched snack bar as the schools lack cooking facilities. This food keeps the children going through the winter. Prior to the introduction of the snack bars children frequently missed school as they weakened and fell sick over the winter months.
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