mary’s meal Overview

Mary’s Meals is an attempt to provide daily nutritious meals to children in a school/non formal learning center, regardless of their religion. This meal encourages children into the class-room. It gives children the sustenance they require, not just to survive, but to concentrate, learn, grow and develop healthily. In this way Mary’s Meals builds a ladder out of poverty as the education the children receive increases the opportunities for the productive employment and creates more-self-reliant and healthier societies. Thus, the world’s poorest communities can be transformed.

Mary’s Meals was introduced in India for the first time at St. Joseph’s school, Assandh, Haryana in April, 2005. It began by serving daily lunch to 40 poor children of the school. Soon the help was extended to different parts of India. Today Mary’s Meals in partnership with BREAD has been able to reach out to the poorest of poor children of 6 states located in the northern and central part of the country.

Categories of children covered under the project

Railway platform children, rag pickers/children, musahar (rat eaters/Catchers children), monkey charmers children, brick-lin workers children, Child labours, Tribal children