Mary’s Meals helps 1.25m children

A charity that provides school meals to impoverished children around the world is now helping more than 1.25 million youngsters. Mary’s Meals said the first few months of this year have seen it reach an additional 20,822 vulnerable children in Zambia and Ethiopia.

It means the Scottish-based charity is now providing 1,257,278 of the world’s poorest children with a nutritious daily school meal.

Mary’s Meals began by feeding 200 children in Malawi in 2002, but now helps children in 15 countries.