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Grassroots Films is proud to announce that our latest production, 'Child 31', has made its way up to a Papal audience. Recently, Mary's Meals' founder, Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow received an invitation to the Vatican to be recognized by Pope Francis and along with him came a copy of our film.
Magus founded Mary's Meals, a charity that provides nourishment in schools for children in lesser developed countries, which currently feeds more than 650,000 children daily. Last year, Grassroots Films released 'Child 31', a powerful new documentary capturing Mary's Meals' life-changing work in action throughout Malawi, Kenya, and India and its mission to help millions of children around the world realize their dreams.
Magus founded Mary's Meals, a charity that provides nourishment in schools for children in lesser developed countries, which currently feeds more than 650,000 children daily. Last year, Grassroots Films released 'Child 31', a powerful new documentary capturing Mary's Meals' life-changing work in action throughout Malawi, Kenya, and India and its mission to help millions of children around the world realize their dreams.
The organization's efforts were certainly noticed by Pope Francis, who, since inaugurated, has led the fight against poverty. Grassroots Films hopes that 'Child 31' can inspire, not only the Vatican, but the entire world to help provide the thousands of children throughout the world that go on without nourishment and education.
To learn more, visit WhoIsChild31.com and marysmeals.org. To read about Magnus' experience, click here"
Where can I see it?
Mary's Meals
All over the world, there are people who will not accept that any child in this world of plenty must endure a day without a meal. Mary's Meals is a global movement that sets up school feeding projects in some of the world's poorest communities, where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. The idea behind Mary's Meals is a simple one that works. The charity provides one daily meal in a place of learning in order to attract chronically hungry children into a classroom, where they receive an education that can, in the future, be their ladder out of poverty.
The Mary's Meals campaign was born in 2002 when Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow visited Malawi during a famine and met a mother dying from AIDs. When Magnus asked her eldest son Edward what his dreams were in life, he replied simply: "I want to have enough food to eat and to go to school one day." That moment was a key part of the inspiration that led to the founding of Mary's Meals, which began by feeding just 200 children in 2002. Today, ten years later, the charity feeds over 650,000 hungry children every day in 16 different countries across the world, including Kenya, Haiti, Uganda, Liberia and India. The charity's work is named after Mary, the mother of Jesus, who brought up her child in poverty. Mary's Meals consists of, respects and reaches out to people of all faiths and none. The average worldwide cost for Mary's Meals to feed a child for a whole school year is just £10.70/$16.80/€12.40. Find out more about Mary's Meals at www.marysmeals.org
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The Lifeblood of Mary’s Meals
We love volunteers! Volunteers are involved in every bit of Mary’s Meals from helping in our warehouse and shops, fundraising on our behalf, to advising us on organisational development.
Why volunteer?
Because of volunteers’ dedication and hard work freely given, money donated to Mary’s Meals goes a long way and that means we can feed even more of the world’s poorest children. Time to spare – even a few hours a week – can be a valuable contribution to Mary’s Meals especially when time is so precious. In the countries where we work, we have over 65,000 community volunteers who give their time for free to prepare the Mary’s Meals that children receive every day.
Because of volunteers’ dedication and hard work freely given, money donated to Mary’s Meals goes a long way and that means we can feed even more of the world’s poorest children. Time to spare – even a few hours a week – can be a valuable contribution to Mary’s Meals especially when time is so precious. In the countries where we work, we have over 65,000 community volunteers who give their time for free to prepare the Mary’s Meals that children receive every day.
New SkillsVolunteering can be a chance for you to share a specialist skill you have or to gain new ones!
Work experience
Volunteering can be a good way of plumping up the CV and make you stand out from the crowd in job interviews:
Get in touchVolunteering can be a good way of plumping up the CV and make you stand out from the crowd in job interviews:
If you are interested in volunteering for Mary’s Meals please have a look at our vacancies at the top right of this page. We always have a need for volunteers! If you think you can help or volunteer in any other way please email: sharon.campbell@marysmeals.org or call on 0141 336 8978. You can also use the form below for volunteer vacancies.
Please note, at present, we don’t have a structure in place to offer volunteer placements overseas
Make a donation
It costs a global average of just £10.70 to feed a child for a year.
Online donations
It’s quick, safe and easy to donate over the Internet, using our secure online donation form.
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Regular Giving = Regular Meals
Giving monthly to Mary’s Meals is one of the most useful ways you can support our work. Please fill out and return a direct debit form which will enable you to make regular donations to Mary’s Meals.
Phone Donations
To donate by telephone, please give our team a call on 01838 200605 or 0800 698 1212
Text Donations
To make a general donation to Mary’s Meals, please text MMSF13 and the amount you would like to donate to 70070. For example, to donate £5, you would text MMSF13 5 to 70070. You can make the following donations £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 and £10, up to a maximum of £30 per month. Donations will be charged to your phone bill or deducted from your pay as you go credit. If you would like to claim Gift Aid on your donation, please follow the instructions in the reply text you receive.
Postal Donations
Please send any cheques, made payable to “Mary’s Meals”, to Mary’s Meals, Craig Lodge, Dalmally, Argyll, PA33 1AR.
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