A Scottish charity - which started from a tin shed - is now feeding three million children every school day in poverty-hit countries after it scaled up its global aid operation.

Mary's Meals, which started off feeding just 200 people with the help of donations, is now providing meals for youngsters in 16 countries.

Founder Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, who still works out of the same shed in Dalmally in Argyll and Bute, said: "When we first began serving Mary's Meals in one small primary school in Malawi back in 2003, we could never have imagined that this would grow into a global movement now serving more than three million children every school day."

Image: Pic: Mary's Meals/Chris Watt Photography

Mr MacFarlane-Barrow founded the charity in 2002 after visiting Malawi during a famine, w

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