Ruth Gledhill, assistant editor of The Tablet, talks to Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, founder of international school feeding charity Mary’s Meals. Mary’s Meals grew out of a charity called Scottish International Relief, which was set up after Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow and his brother Fergus took aid from their home in Argyll to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992, during the conflict. The global 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 he asked her eldest son, Edward, what his dreams were in life, he replied simply: “To have enough food to eat and to be able to go to school one day.” Mary’s Meals feeds 2,429,182 children every day at school in 18 countries, across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Listen now to find out what happened to Edward, how thousands of children and communities are being helped and more about the incredible story behind the foundation and ongoing success of Mary’s Meals.
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