‘Operation Christmas Appeal’
£500 to Mary’s Meals – Supporting School Feeding Programme in Zambia
This year our Appeal has been a huge success and we have raised £2000 for our chosen Christmas Charities.
With our Local Fund Raising Events we have raised funds for Local Charities.
However Soroptimists work Locally and Globally to improve the lives of women and children.
Our own club and member events this year support Mary’s Meals and their School Feeding Programme in Zambia.
The £500 we have raised has been match funded and £1000 will go this wonderful small charity
Mary’s Meals – School Feeding Programme in Zambia
Today in Zambia – 10 years after Mary’s Meals programme began – 400,000 children eat Mary’s Meals every school day. Across the Eastern Province children are coming to school – amid the current catastrophic hunger crisis – because they know they will eat there. They now face a totally different future. The Meals are changing the future for more than 2.4 million children!
Sharing some of what we have so that children can have a school meal might not feel as heroic as saving a drowning child. And supporting Mary’s Meals might not seem as transformational as building a school. But by choosing to support the work, we are tackling head-on something more threatening than any flooding river – the poverty and hunger that keep children out of the classroom. And with each meal provided, we are helping to build something even more precious and longer lasting.