The Food Crisis
Every child deserves a meal. Every meal changes a life.
🍽️ What Is the Global Food Crisis?
The world is facing a silent emergency. Right now, over 783 million people go to bed hungry every night. Among them are millions of children whose bodies and minds are being starved of the nourishment they need to grow, learn, and thrive.
This crisis isn’t just about food shortages—it’s about conflict, climate change, inequality, and broken systems. In many communities, families are forced to make impossible choices: food or education, medicine or survival.
📉 The Hard Truth:
45 million children under 5 suffer from wasting (dangerously low weight for height).
One in three people globally cannot afford a healthy diet.
Hunger kills more people every year than HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.
War and displacement in countries like Sudan, Congo, and Yemen worsen the crisis every day.
đź’” Why Children Suffer Most
Children are always the most vulnerable. Hunger traps them in a cycle of malnutrition, illness, and missed education. It keeps them from becoming who they’re meant to be.
A child who cannot eat cannot concentrate in school. A child who misses school may never escape poverty.
🌱 Our Response
At Mary’s Meals Global, we believe a simple meal can be a powerful act of hope. That’s why we provide daily school meals to the world’s poorest children—in places where hunger and poverty are keeping them out of the classroom.
We feed children in countries hardest hit by the food crisis: Malawi, South Sudan, Haiti, Syria, and more. Each meal is a message that says:
You matter. You are not forgotten.
🍲 What One Meal Can Do
Encourages school attendance and learning
Improves health and focus
Gives families one less worry
Offers dignity and daily hope
We can’t fix everything. But we can fill one plate. One child at a time.
🙌 How You Can Help
$21 feeds a child for a whole school year.
Join us. Together, we can end hunger in the classroom and beyond.
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đź’ˇ Hope Is Always on the Menu
The food crisis is real, but so is our ability to respond. With compassion. With action. With meals that change lives.
Mary’s Meals is a global movement of people playing their part in tackling world hunger using a simple idea. Mary’s Meals helps to encourage children into the classroom – and gives them the energy to concentrate on lessons – so they can gain an education that can help them work towards a brighter future.
About Us
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90% of all our expenses go to program services.