Welcome to our Feed a School programme, giving you the opportunity to provide daily school meals to some of the world’s poorest children for an entire year. 

Millions of children across the globe miss out on going to school due to hunger.

Our Feed a School initiative enables you to sign up to provide nutritious, life-changing school meals to some of the world’s poorest children for an entire year. 

When you pledge to cover the cost of daily meals for every child at a chosen school, you are positively impacting the lives of hundreds of vulnerable children – giving them the energy to participate in lessons and the opportunity to receive an education. 

Whether you want to fundraise together with a group of people or would like to donate as an individual, Feed a School is an impactful way to give hope of a brighter future to some of the world’s poorest children.

The promise of nutritious daily school meals allows the children to grow and prosper, helps their families to survive and thrive, and acts as a catalyst for the communities they live in to break the cycle of poverty.

At the end of your 12-month fundraising journey, you will receive a personalised update, featuring children from your chosen school, as well as teachers and volunteers involved in the school feeding programme. 

Countries where you can Feed a School

Malawi

Malawi is our largest programme – serving more than 1,315,000 children every school day – and is delivered by Mary’s Meals Malawi alongside our partners MCSPA and Tafika. Malawi is where our school feeding programme began, and where our first meals were served in 2003, it is central to the Mary’s Meals story. 

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Zambia

We currently provide school meals to more than 605,000 children in over 1,250 schools in the Eastern Province of the country – delivered by Mary’s Meals Zambia. The programme is able to reach so many children because of tens of thousands of volunteers from local communities who give their time freely to prepare and serve our nutritious meals. 

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"Over the last 10 years, our pupils, parents and staff at Beachborough School have taken the children at Malawi’s Nthola Primary into our hearts. Fundraising for Mary’s Meals is part of Beachborough life. Children at our school feel connected with the children they are helping in Malawi, and we will continue our support through the gift of food and education so that we can change the lives and fortunes of our friends."

Beachborough School

Your Experience with the Feed a School initiative 

We welcome the commitment from you if you decide to Feed a School and will support you, answer any questions, and offer advice.

Throughout the year we will provide regular updates from the feeding programme and encouraging feedback on your project, including fundraising tips to help you to reach your target and provide food for an entire school for a year.

At the end of the year, you will receive an update on your project success with photos and quotes from the project.

Now you have your project through its first year we will make sure you have the first option to feed the school in subsequent years; we look forward to having a long-term partnership with you and reaching the next child.

Let’s us share our vision with you that every child receives one daily meal in their place of education, and that all those who have more than they need share with those who lack even the most basic things.