In Remotest Zambia, Mary’s Meals Brings Blessings of Nutrition, Education — and Hope
Catholics in particular equate the charity with graces obtained by Our Lady.
KASAMA, Zambia — The dusty, undulating track of road, misshapen by the rainy season months ago, seems to never end as our local driver deftly navigates his 4x4 into remotest northern Zambia.
We pass the occasional man, woman and child strolling by the roadside, as well as isolated straw-roofed huts, each without electricity or water mains. The land and vegetation around us is mostly scorched by fire to aid farming production as the sun beats down overhead through the clear, arid air typical of the end of the dry season.
Together with a team of journalists and staff from Mary’s Meals, we’re on our way to visit a state-run school that has recently become one of the global charity’s many school feeding programs.
Founded by Scottish Catholic Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow after he met a Malawian boy during a famine who told him he just wanted enough to eat so he could go to school, Mary’s Meals supports school food programs in some of the world’s poorest communities, helping to ensure hunger and poverty are not an obstacle to education.
Since its founding in 2002, the charity has experienced phenomenal growth and now feeds an estimated 3 million schoolchildren in 16 countries. Its Zambian program alone is providing meals to 700,000 learners in more than 1,000 schools after 11 years in the country.
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