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Providing a meal to children in their place of education is having a far-reaching impact on the welfare of communities across Zambia’s Eastern Province.

Our school feeding programme is a beacon of hope for entire communities in Zambia, where we currently serve meals to more than 400,000 children.

Following 10 years of Mary’s Meals school feeding in Zambia, we’re now serving daily school meals to more than 400,000 learners.

Mary’s Meals’ latest impact report reveals how school feeding is driving education and health gains across our programme countries.

The annual walk to the village of Knock is an opportunity to experience simple, yet inspirational, acts of kindness from people and supporters along the way.

Expanding our feeding programme in schools requires comprehensive research, planning and assessment from our programme teams.

We’re now reaching more than 110,000 children in Ethiopia with Mary’s Meals, helping to transform lives in the Tigray region.

Mary’s Meals school feeding programme is enabling pre-school children in the Turkana region of northwest Kenya to receive an education. This article documents Christine Atoto's trip with the Mary’s Meals programme operations team to deliver food to three ECDs in Turkana.

Whether it’s becoming a regular giver, fundraising for us or volunteering your time, you can make an incredible difference to the children we serve by getting involved with our charity.

Inspiring stories of fundraising initiatives and events from across the global Mary's Meals family.

Sister Medhin Tesfay speaks at the Medjugorje Youth Festival about working with Mary’s Meals to deliver daily meals to school children in Tigray, Ethiopia.

Breaking through barriers, visually impaired Mercy aspires to become a teacher.

Today on World Refugee Day we share with you two poignant stories of women who were forced to flee their home country of Burundi and now live in Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi.

This World Hunger Day, Mary's Meals founder, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow says famine has no place in the 21st century. Find out more.

Mary's Meals will bring hope to thousands of children on the front line of climate change.

Doctor Abraha is a paediatrician at Ayder Hospital – the largest in Tigray. He shares his concerns about the alarming increase in the number of children dying of malnutrition in his facility.

Resilient in the face of war, the community around Beati Akor Primary School tried to make the impossible possible by continuing to provide a space for learning during one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century.

Gebrisha Gebray, Deputy Social and Development Coordinator for our partner in Ethiopia, speaks about the recent conflict in Tigray, why he thinks of Mary’s Meals as “life-saving”, and how this partnership connects us all through our shared humanity.

Fitsum could only send one of her children to school, so she chose her daughter, Aradech. In a region on the brink of famine, the arrival of school feeding at her school would be a lifeline not only for the bright young student but also for her siblings.

Now, in schools where our meals are served in Tigray, young learners have the chance to engage with education again, and spend time with their friends, safe in the knowledge that they will receive a much-needed meal every day they attend classes.