An Argyll-based children’s charity has revealed its plans to provide thousands of meals to children at home as schools remain closed amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Mary’s Meals is a global movement providing school meals to children in 19 of the world’s poorest countries each year in an effort to end world hunger.
Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, the charity is working to provide food at home for more than a million pupils dependent on the school feeding programme.
Mary’s Meal’s volunteers are now adapting their way of working, distributing food parcels in villages including Kenya to provide children with one key meal a day.
Daniel Adams, UK executive director of Mary’s Meals, said: “All around the world, schools are closed and homes have become places of learning. This means we have had to find new ways to feed the children who eat Mary’s Meals – sometimes the only food they receive in a day.
“The coronavirus crisis presents extraordinarily difficult circumstances, but we are determined to keep our promise to the children who rely on Mary’s Meals.
“We have a long history of feeding children in the world’s most challenging environments.
“This has included delivering much-needed food during the time of the Ebola virus in Liberia and emergency feeding during famine in East Africa, as well as in conflict-hit South Sudan.”
