Mary’s Meals Key Figures
Total number of children receiving a daily meal in school = 600,705
Average global cost of Mary’s Meals per child, per year = $16.80
Cost of Mary’s Meals per child, per year in Malawi = $11
Worldwide average cost per meal = 9 cents
Cost per meal in Malawi = 6 cents
Number of chronically hungry children in the world = 300 million. Around 67 million of these children are out of school.
Number of children receiving a daily meal in their place of education:
Albania – 20 | Benin – 430 | Bosnia – 24 | Burma – 281 | Ecuador – 188 | Haiti – 17,277 | India – 4,170 | Kenya – 18,243 | Liberia – 39,664 | Malawi – 510,140 | Philippines – 2,000 | South Sudan – 3,250 | Sudan – 166 | Thailand – 677 | Uganda – 3,651 | Ukraine – 524
Global Total = 600,705
In addition to school feeding projects, Mary’s Meals runs a children’s home project in Romania and is currently providing an emergency response to children and adults in famine-hit Somalia.

