Glasgow school kids support Mary's Meals charity

Primary and secondary school children from throughout Glasgow helped school meals provider Cordia support international charity Mary's Meals by ordering lunch from their dining halls. The 'Step up to the plate' initiative saw Cordia pay for five "Mary's Meals" for every lunch purchased in all Glasgow school "Fuel Zones" during the two-day initiative. Cordia which manages the catering facilities in all 204 of Glasgow's schools, had originally aimed to feed a quarter of a million Malawian children. It costs just £6.15 for Mary's Meals to feed a school child in Malawi for a whole school year. Fergus Chambers, managing director of Cordia, said: "The amazing support and enthusiasm we received from schools, parents and children for this most worthy of projects helped us not only meet our target but exceed it by some distance. "Children across Glasgow have yet again shown their willingness to help those in the developing world. we know from our own schools how important adequate nourishment can be to a child's performance in the classroom, which is why we are glad so many children supported this cause." Mary's meals currently provides more than 526,000 meals a day to children in places of education in 16 different countries across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.