{"id":5831,"date":"2011-10-28T08:35:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T08:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2011-10-28T08:35:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T08:35:54","slug":"a-charity-is-sending-250000-educational-backpacks-to-schools-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/28\/a-charity-is-sending-250000-educational-backpacks-to-schools-in-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"A charity is sending 250,000 educational backpacks to schools in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A charity is helping impoverished children in Africa by sending 250,000 educational backpacks to schools.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marysmeals.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary\u2019s Meals<\/a>\u00a0is to transport about 6,000 backpacks filled with resources like pens and books to children in Malawi, bringing the total number sent overseas to 250,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5833\" title=\"mry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>School children from St Monica\u2019s primary school in Milton, Glasgow, helped volunteers and staff celebrate by lending a hand loading a container with the latest donation of backpacks.<\/p>\n<p>The charity\u2019s main work is providing school feeding programmes but it is sending the backpacks to ensure children in poverty can make the most of their classes at school.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Begley, education co-ordinator at Mary\u2019s Meals, said: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted that our backpack project has reached the quarter-million milestone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese backpacks, filled with everyday school supplies, will provide a real lifeline to Malawian children as studies show that receiving an education is the best way for a chronically poor child to escape poverty in later life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary\u2019s Meals began feeding 200 children in Malawi in 2002 after its Scottish founder Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow visited the country and was struck by the extreme poverty in which the people were living.<\/p>\n<p>It costs just \u00a36.15 for Mary\u2019s Meals to feed a child for a whole school year in Malawi and they now feed over 581,000 children every day in 16 of the world\u2019s poorest countries, including Kenya, Liberia and Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>A daily meal in school, served by Mary\u2019s Meals volunteers, encourages children to come to class and receive an education.<\/p>\n<p>The backpack project has been supported by hundreds of individuals, schools, churches and other groups as well as high-profile figures such as Prime Minister David Cameron, who donated a batch of Downing Street branded pens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A charity is helping impoverished children in Africa by sending 250,000 educational backpacks to schools.\u00a0\u00a0Mary\u2019s Meals\u00a0is to transport about 6,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[1309,328,602,1310],"class_list":["post-5831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-profit-organizations","tag-backpacks","tag-charity","tag-mary-meals","tag-scools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}