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Mary's Meals is a registered charity, formerly known as Scottish International Relief (SIR), that sets up school feeding projects in some of the world's poorest communities, where hunger and poverty prevent children from gaining an education.〔http://www.marysmeals.org.uk/about/how-marys-meals-works〕 It was founded in 2002 and has grown from its first feeding operation of 200 children in Malawi, to a world-wide campaign, providing free school meals in hundreds of schools and feeding over 1 million 〔https://www.marysmeals.org.uk/who-we-are/news-and-blogs/marys-meals-celebrates-feeding-one-million-children-every-school-day〕 children daily. Mary’s Meals is named for the Virgin Mary by its founders, who were inspired by their Catholic faith, although the charity is not a Catholic organization.〔(Charity head named CNN ‘Top Ten Hero’ finds inspiration in papal encyclical ) Global Catholic Network News, 25 September 2010〕 ==History== SIR charity began in 1992 during the Balkan conflict, when Magnus and Fergus MacFarlane Barrow organised a local appeal for blankets and food. They filled a Jeep with aid and delivered their cargo to Medjugorje in Bosnia. The brothers, aged 25 and 27, returned to Scotland expecting to resume work as fish farmers, but in their absence their parents’ shed had been filled with more donations. Magnus took a ‘gap year’, to deliver the aid for as long as it was needed, and has never gone back to his old job. The donations didn’t stop – they still haven’t – so the project was registered as a charity, then named as Scottish International Relief. In 2002, the Mary's Meals school feeding projects were born in a small cluster of primary schools in Chipini, Chilomoni and various under six centres in Blantyre, Malawi, funded and administered by Scottish International Relief. The idea for Mary's Meals came from UK businessman Tony Smith.〔http://www.marysmeals.org.uk/about/origins-of-our-name〕 Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, founder and CEO of Mary's Meals, visited Chipini with Gay Russell, a woman from Malawi who was a key figure in famine relief, and Tony Smith, to help organise the first school feeding project there. From May 1, 2012, the charity officially changed its name from Scottish International Relief (SIR) to Mary's Meals, to reflect the fact that school feeding, which began as only one element of the organisation's work in 2002, has now become its main focus.〔http://www.marysmeals.org.uk/marys-meals-official-name-change〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary's Meals」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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