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A Better Childhood in Nyambi
Mary’s Meals Content Manager Steph Bungay traveled to Malawi this year and met Estele, a young mother. Estele spoke of the devastation that poverty and hunger has had on her family and why Mary’s Meals is helping to give her children a better childhood.
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Your Gift of Hope Can Transform a Child’s Future This Christmas
For Mohamad, Georgina, and Efigénia, your gift this Christmas is more than just a donation; it’s the hope of a better, brighter future.
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A Story of Hope from Our Founder
Signs of hope – even the smallest flickers of light in times of darkness – are all around us if we look for them. And with Mary’s Meals hope pops up in many ways – often in unexpected places.
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Giving Tuesday 2025- Help Us Feed Hungry Children
Your Donation Will Help Us Provide a Daily Meal for Vulnerable Children in Their Place of Education.
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Faces of Hope: Reflections from the 10th Annual Mary’s Meals Silent Auction and Fundraiser Dinner
Mary's Meals USA Executive Director, Terry Bonet, shares her experience as the keynote speaker at the 10th Annual Mary's Meals Silent Auction and Fundraising Dinner, hosted by Ambassadors Debra and Wayne Waldera.
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A Daily Meal for Just 13 Cents: How Can It Cost So Little To Provide Essential Food at School?
Find out four of the ways Mary’s Meals keeps running costs low in bringing much-needed daily meals to children from vulnerable communities in their place of education.
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Live Aid: 40 years on Ethiopia faces hidden human catastrophe
While the world looks away, Mary’s Meals stands with the children of Tigray
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An Easter Message from Our Founder, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow
As another winter ends and spring begins to bloom, Magnus shares a special Easter message to the Mary's Meals family.
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Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow on Seize the Day with Gus Lloyd
On March 24 2025, Mary's Meals Founder and CEO, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, joined Gus Lloyd on his podcast, Seize the Day. They discuss the Mary's Meals mission, the "Right to Hope" and Magnus' recent speech at the Vatican Summit on Children's Rights.
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Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow on CFN Live
Magnus joins CFN to share about children's right to hope, education and food, and it's intrinsic connection to the Mary's Meals mission.
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Hope for Haiti – Chantrelle’s story
Chantrelle Paul, a volunteer cook for Mary’s Meals, talks about the impact of gang violence in Haiti and the hope she has for her children’s future.
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Hope for Haiti – Myrlande’s story
Myrlande talks about how gangs recruit children in Haiti and how school feeding can prevent children from joining gangs.
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Hope for Haiti – the impact of school feeding
Emmline Toussaint from our partner BND talks about the impact of gang violence on children in Haiti and how Mary’s Meals is a beacon of hope for local communities.
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Hope for Haiti
Fifteen years after the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, food is a major incentive preventing Haiti’s children joining a gang.
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Mary’s Meals changed my life
Gift’s story shows the powerful impact of our school meals
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Climate crisis causes food insecurity in Mozambique
Mary’s Meals’ school feeding program is having a positive impact on Mozambique’s children amid drought, flooding and cyclones.
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A child’s fight for a poverty-free future in Zimbabwe
Despite the failed rainy seasons and drought, Mary’s Meals is providing Thabita hope for the future.
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What to know about food insecurity: From minimal and stressed to crisis and famine
Amid the many headlines and reports about food crises, understanding hunger and the levels of food insecurity that prompt warnings can inform ways to help.
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Providing a lifeline to children in Southern Africa
Southern Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 100 years. Action is needed to avoid a full-scale humanitarian catastrophe in the region.
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Drought pushes families to the brink in Zambia
There seems to be no end to the consequences of Zambia’s historic drought.
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