"What’s important to us is the hungry child. When
there are hungry children in front of us today, we’re going to feed
them, and at the same time we’re going to work on the solution to
getting them fed in the long term, creating a global movement
of people who believe in this vision."
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, Mary’s Meals Founder and CEO
With two friends, I also run this Sunday and it was absolutely amazing! The atmosphere, the energy, the positivity! I was just so happy and inspired by all that and the feeling of being able to help someone, to make someone's life that much better and easier by simple acts that don't damage me in any way. 120kn is enough to feed a child for an year and this Sunday we raised around 30 000kunas!
Mary's Meals is the global movement that tries to enable that every child in poor communities where hunger is the biggest problem receives daily meal in their place of education. Movement is supported by many countries and people from different backgrounds, all with the huge desire to help in ways they are able to, being it money, goods, skills, time, prayer etc.
This Sunday, there was a humanitarian running competition on 5km in Maksimir, lovely park here in Zagreb. Every runner had to make a symbolic donation of 50kunas to participate and thanks to the large number of volunteers, 93% of all money goes directly to the children and just 7% is used to compensate organizational costs.
This Sunday, there was a humanitarian running competition on 5km in Maksimir, lovely park here in Zagreb. Every runner had to make a symbolic donation of 50kunas to participate and thanks to the large number of volunteers, 93% of all money goes directly to the children and just 7% is used to compensate organizational costs.
Wanna help?
If you want to become an active part of this movement, there are several things you can do:
Volunteer - on their official page there is all necessary information
Donate - here is the example how to donate to Mary's Meals in Croatia
Sponsor a school - again, all the necessary information you might be interested in is available on the official site of the movement, under the section Get Involved
Check out this to find out about more ways to give! :)
Hope you are having a wonderful day so far!
Kisses,
Maja