Schools Support Mary's Meals
Published on:
24
September 2014
Two Clackmannanshire primary schools have responded to an appeal by Clackmannan Parish Church World Concern Group to collect over 100 backpacks for the charity Mary's Meals.
Strathdevon Primary in Dollar and Abercromby Primary in Tullibody invited their pupils to bring in their old school bags to be sent to children overseas. In addition the families were asked if they could contribute items to provide some of the poorest children in Africa with, what we consider to be, essential items for good health and education.
The charity plan to send the packs to Malawi by Christmas. The charity advised that 'often these are the first gifts the children in the schools we work in have received. Now they are able to take notes, study and revise for exams'.
The World Concern Group would like to thank everyone for helping them support this worthy charity.
Notes to Editor
Mary's Meals is a global movement that sets up school feeding projects in some of the world's poorest communities , where hunger and poverty prevent children from gaining an education. The charity provides one daily meal in a place of learning to attract chronically poor children into a classroom where they receive an education that can, in the future be their ladder out of poverty.
The Backpack Project appeals to schools, clubs, businesses, churches and individuals to fill backpacks with basic educational materials to send to children receiving Mary's Meals. Most of the children who benefit from Mary's Meals and the Backpack Project have suffered war, poverty, famine, or natural disaster. Very often families cannot afford to buy basic things like pencils and copy books, or even suitable clothes for their children to wear to school. And so their children miss out on school and an education. A simple backpack with educational materials can be a lifeline to these children as studies show that an education is the best way a chronically poor child can escape poverty in later life.
