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The Diversity Cup 2010 is proud to be supporting Mary's Meals
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Mary's Meals is an international movement to set up school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. Mary's Meals provides daily meals in school for over 400,000 children in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
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As a result of the work Mary's Meals does, daily school attendance improves, concentration improves, education of girls is encouraged and pupils' performance is improved.
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In December 2009, the average cost of Mary's Meals across all of their projects was only £9. This means that for a team entry fee of £40, at least 4 children will be benefiting from a school meal every day for a whole year!
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 | A child in Malawi fed with a nutritional meal every day for £6.15 a year*. The reasons the figure is so low in Malawi are: 1. The staple food is white maize. Mary's Meals consists of Likuni Phala - a fortified white maize porridge. In other words the Mary's Meals food is locally produced and readily available. 2. As the Mary's Meals programme expands in Malawi, the charity are purchasing huge quantities of Likuni Phala each month and it has proved cheaper to buy 'in bulk'. 3. Local volunteers - their tremendous contribution to the programme keeps running costs in Malawi to a minimum. *Figure correct at Dec 09 |
