A leading Scots charity is helping to feed three million pupils with free school lunches every day in some of the world’s poorest communities.
Mary’s Meals is still headquartered in a rickety tin shed in the Argyll village of Dalmally where it started in 2002.
Back then, it was feeding 200 pupils every school day. Twenty-three years later, founder and CEO Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, founder and CEO, said the massive number now is a milestone he “could never have imagined”.
Magnus said: “When we first began serving Mary’s Meals in one small primary school in Malawi we could never have imagined that this would grow into a global movement now serving more than three million children every school day.
“And yet, at the same time, when we see how this simple, inexpensive inter