{"id":2048,"date":"2018-07-30T15:56:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T14:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2018-07-30T15:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T14:56:55","slug":"food-for-thought-marys-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/2018\/07\/30\/food-for-thought-marys-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for thought &#8211; Mary&#8217;s Meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2018\/07\/Sue-Nightingale-and-Anita.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2049\" src=\"\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2018\/07\/Sue-Nightingale-and-Anita-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2018\/07\/Sue-Nightingale-and-Anita-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2018\/07\/Sue-Nightingale-and-Anita-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2018\/07\/Sue-Nightingale-and-Anita-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2018\/07\/Sue-Nightingale-and-Anita.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Our guest speaker, Sue Nightingale, became a volunteer for the charity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysmeals.org.uk\">Mary&#8217;s Meals<\/a> following a two week work experience using her skills as a nurse in Kenya. \u00a0 There she saw the impact that the simple provision of one meal a day made to impoverished school children.<\/p>\n<p>We are used to the idea of &#8216;Breakfast Clubs&#8217; in the UK providing our children with a good nourishing start to the day but it was quite shocking to hear that these children are so grateful for <strong>ONE<\/strong> meal a day. \u00a0 Mary&#8217;s Meals sets up feeding programmes in some of the world&#8217;s poorest communities, regardless of faith. \u00a0 By providing a daily meal in a place of learning Mary&#8217;s Meals enable chronically hungry children to gain an education that could be their path to a brighter future. \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;cursor: text;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14.4px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">It costs just \u00a313.90 to feed a child for a whole school year<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also started a Backpack Project to help children get the most out of their learning.\u00a0 Club members brought various items as contributions. \u00a0 For the full list if you think you could help please co to the website www.marysmeals.org.uk. \u00a0 It&#8217;s a brilliant way to recycle our children&#8217;s school bags and PE kit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our guest speaker, Sue Nightingale, became a volunteer for the charity Mary&#8217;s Meals following a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Food for thought - Mary&#039;s Meals | News | Blog | Events | SI Kenilworth and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Kenilworth and District : Blog &amp; News : Food for thought - Mary&#039;s Meals : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Kenilworth and District . 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