Liberia
Mary’s Meals started working in Liberia in 1994. We provide children with daily meals in school, we support a school for the deaf and a technical school, and we are developing a rice growing project. We also send regular deliveries of material aid through the Backpack Project. Most of our projects are located in Bomi County.
School Feeding
We have been working in Liberia since 1994 and so have witnessed her people’s suffering over many difficult years of civil conflict. It is wonderful to be working together now in this time of peace and to do what we can to support the process of reconstruction. Our main work is school feeding. Schools have re-opened and pupils are starting to catch up on years of missed education. Most of our school feeding projects are in small village schools. Children are often too hungry to attend school, or are helping to find wild food (fruit and fish), and even if they do attend, they are in no state to concentrate and learn.
Mary’s Meals helps to relieve the burden for families and other community members, tackling child malnutrition and also encouraging children back to the classroom. Some of the village schools are so remote they cannot be reached by road. Instead the men of the village will walk to the nearest road and carry food back to their communities. Parents contribute by providing the vegetables for making the sauce and by taking their turn cooking the rice. We also provide Mary’s Meals in St Dominic’s secondary school where some of the pupils are former child soldiers.
Companion Projects
St Benedict’s Technical School – many young people missed out on school because of the years of war.
Boosting Local Food Production – Liberia relies on food imports because farms are not sufficiently re-established to feed the population.
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