Princess Royal visits home of Mary's Meals

Magnus, who still works out of the same tin shed which serves as Mary’s Meals’ global headquarters, says: “It was a pleasure to welcome Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to the little shed in the Highlands where the work of Mary’s Meals began.

"It was an honour to receive such a prestigious visit soon after achieving the milestone of our school feeding programme reaching more than three million children every school day. For someone who grew up in a remote part of Scotland, I never expected to be welcoming Her Royal Highness to Dalmally for a tour of my shed!”
 

The milestone follows a major scale-up of Mary’s Meals’ school feeding programmes across nine countries, including in Ethiopia’s war-torn region of Tigray, Malawi and Zambia, which are enduring the effects of climate change-induced drought and flooding, and Haiti, a country besieged by political unrest and extreme violence.
 

This incredible growth comes amid a backdrop of cuts to international aid budgets and a global cost-of-living crisis, as the low-cost charity, which can feed a child for a whole school year for only £19.15, continues to punch above its weight.
 

Mary’s Meals wouldn’t be able to reach these children without its dedicated volunteers, both those who help to serve school meals in their own communities, and those who raise awareness of its mission across the UK.
 

Magnus adds: “What began as a small, community-led programme serving meals at two schools in Malawi has grown into a global programme providing nutritious daily meals to children in thousands of places of education across 16 countries, thanks to the generosity of supporters and volunteers who share our belief that no child in this world of plenty should have to suffer hunger or miss out on an education.”