Mary’s Meals match feeds 500

As a result of the Senior hurling game between Tipperary and Laois, played at Páirc Shileain on January 14, €11,000 was raised in aid of Mary’s Meals.

This supplied 500 children with one meal a day for an entire school year. Mary’s Meals' mission statement is that every child receives one meal a day in a place of education. Education is the road out of poverty but to learn, children need to be fed, which is what we do well.

For example, in Zambia today, 10 years after we began our programme, 400,000 children eat Mary’s Meals every school day. Across the Eastern Province children are coming to school amid the current catastrophic crisis because they know they will eat there. They now have a future.

The children of Taonga are so grateful to have people like you who make these vital meals possible. Meals that are changing the future of more than 2.5 million children in the poorest countries of the world.

Mary’s Meals is a simple solution to world hunger. At a recent conference to discuss world hunger organised in the Vatican by Pope Frances. Our founder Magnus McFarlane-Barrow was a speaker together with other world leaders. This reflects Mary’s Meals effectiveness and huge contribution to addressing world hunger.

We in North Tipperary Mary's Meals are so grateful to everyone who supported us and helped to organise and run this challenge game. This is wonderful work, which we must continue to carry out and when we leave this world; we want to say that because of our small efforts, the world will be a better place because we lived.