Everything you need to know about giving during the most wonderful time of the year.

Everything you need to know about giving during the most wonderful time of the year

Everything you need to know about giving during the most wonderful time of the yearFor many of us, Christmas is a time to gather around the dinner table to feast, tell stories and create cherished memories with loved ones. Christmas is also a special time for Mary’s Meals, and with the festive season well underway, we are inviting you to set a place at our virtual Big Family Christmas dinner table this year to bring hope to hungry children living in impoverished communities.Every place set at our virtual table gives a child with chronic hunger a life-changing gift of school meals for one year. There is no limit on the number of places you can reserve, so whether you’ve reserved a place for a colleague, family member, friend or in memory of someone special, there will always be room for everyone. It’s a place where more is always merrier as by design, the more places set, the more lives are changed.Mary’s Meals is already serving more than two million poverty-stricken children every school day, but our work is far from complete. Help us achieve our vision that every child receives one daily meal in their place of education and join the thousands of people all over the world this Christmas with our Big Family Christmas campaign. As a thank you for reserving your spot, you’ll receive a beautiful, personalised placemat which you can email, print, or pass on to others during this festive season. Your personalised dinner plate will also appear virtually beside hundreds of others on our Big Family Christmas webpage.Today, more than 58 million primary school-aged children are out of school because of poverty. Millions more attend too hungry or tired to learn. Your gift of £15.90 will serve a nutritious, locally sourced meal to a child in a place of education every school day. The meal is also an incentive for them to attend lessons and gain an education. We believe the provision of a daily meal enables children to grow up healthy and educated to become men and women with the skills and strength to lift their communities out of poverty. It’s a simple idea that works.For other ways to give with Mary’s Meals this Christmas, check out our magical selection of Christmas cards and digital gift cards.Find out more about Mary’s Meals’ Big Family Christmas campaign.

As the situation in this war-torn region of Ethiopia worsens day by day, our work continues to find the best way to keep our promise to feed those in such desperate need

Our UK campaign attracts Hollywood stars of screen and stage

Hawa walks a two-hour round trip to attend one of the over 620 primary schools in Liberia that receive Mary’s Meals.

The Mary’s Meals global family is not one for sitting still. Whatever the occasion, our faithful supporters never cease to amaze us, defying all the odds to spread the word of our vision and fundraise to ensure over 2 million children and counting – who would otherwise go hungry – are served a daily meal at school.

South Sudan remains one of the most food-insecure countries in the world with years of conflict, instability, mismanagement, and climate-related issues severely limiting the country’s food production.

The joy of returning to school was doubled for thousands of children from Goromonzi District, in the Mashonaland East province of Zimbabwe.

Every child is someone