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| Founded | 1992 (SIR) 2002 (Mary's Meals) |
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| Founder | Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow Fergus MacFarlane-Barrow |
| Focus | School feeding |
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Area served | Developing world |
| Website | marysmeals |
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Mary's Meals, formerly known as Scottish International Relief (SIR), is a registered charity which sets up school feeding programmes in some of the world's poorest communities, where hunger and poverty prevent children from gaining an education.[1] It was founded in 2002 and has grown from its first feeding operation of 200 children in Malawi, to a worldwide campaign, providing free school meals in hundreds of schools and feeding more than two million children daily.[2][non-primary source needed] Mary's Meals is named after Mary, the mother of Jesus, by its founders, who were inspired by their Catholic faith, although the charity is not a Catholic organisation.[3]
- ^ "How Mary's Meals works « Mary's Meals". www.marysmeals.org.uk. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "Mary's Meals celebrates feeds over TWO MILLION children every school day – Mary's Meals". Mary's Meals. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- ^ Charity head named CNN ‘Top Ten Hero’ finds inspiration in papal encyclical Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Global Catholic Network News, 25 September 2010