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A Mary\u2019s Meal may be the only meal children in Malawi get regularly<\/p><\/div>Almost 300,000 meals will be given to poverty stricken children in Malawi thanks to Glasgow families.<\/p>\n
School meals provider Cordia topped a target to feed a quarter of a million African children with the help of thousands of pupils.<\/p>\n
The Step Up to The Plate initiative saw Cordia pay for five Mary\u2019s Meals for every lunch purchased in school Fuel Zones during the two-day initiative.<\/p>\n
It costs just \u00a36.15 for Mary\u2019s Meals to feed a child in Malawi for a whole school year \u2013 often the only meal the children receive that day.<\/p>\n
With an estimated 53% of its population living in poverty, Malawi is one of Africa\u2019s poorest countries.<\/p>\n
Cordia managing director Fergus Chambers said: \u201cThe amazing support and enthusiasm we received from schools, parents and children for this most worthy of projects helped us not only meet our target but exceed it by some distance.<\/p>\n
\u201cChildren across Glasgow have yet again shown their willingness to help those in the developing world. We know from our own schools how important adequate nourishment can be to a child\u2019s performance in the class.\u201d<\/p>\n
The project will be a major boost for Mary\u2019s Meals, which currently provides more than 526,000 meals a day to children in places of education in 16 countries across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the charity is in the running for a UK award. Calum\u2019s shed, the charity\u2019s base in Dalmally, Argyll, is up for this year\u2019s Shed of the Year title.<\/p>\n
The competition has a top prize of \u00a31000 \u2013 enough to pay for a meal a day in school for 106 children for a year.<\/p>\n
Calum\u2019s shed has been at the heart of the charity\u2019s work since it began in 1992. During the Balkan conflict, Magnus MacFarlane Barrow borrowed it from his father Calum to store donations of blankets and medicine before he delivered them to Bosnia.<\/p>\n
Since then it has hosted staff, volunteers and visitors including film star Gerard Butler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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