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http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/school-in-bid-to-feed-deaf-kids-1.1107661
A school has teamed up with a charity to raise cash to feed hundreds of poverty-stricken children for a year.
Youngsters from St Peter’s Primary in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, raised funds along with Mary’s Meals for a deaf school in Malawi.
St Peter’s and Prospect Bank School in Edinburgh are supporting the Mountain View Deaf School. The schools were brought together through Mary’s Meals’ Sponsor a School scheme.
Mary Murphy, head teacher of St Peter’s, said: “We plan to support Mountain Deaf as long as we’re here.”
Tony Begley, education co-ordinator at Mary’s Meals, said: “An education, even a basic one, can have a life-changing effect on a child and its community, by lifting individuals and countries out of poverty.
“In Malawi many children are often too hungry to attend school and those who do attend are unable to concentrate due to hunger.”
Mary’s Meals began feeding 200 children in Malawi after the Scottish founder of the charity, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, visited the country in 2002.
It now feeds more than 526,000 children in places of education every day in 16 different countries
A school has teamed up with a charity to raise cash to feed hundreds of poverty-stricken children for a year.
Youngsters from St Peter’s Primary in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, raised funds along with Mary’s Meals for a deaf school in Malawi.
St Peter’s and Prospect Bank School in Edinburgh are supporting the Mountain View Deaf School. The schools were brought together through Mary’s Meals’ Sponsor a School scheme.
Mary Murphy, head teacher of St Peter’s, said: “We plan to support Mountain Deaf as long as we’re here.”
Tony Begley, education co-ordinator at Mary’s Meals, said: “An education, even a basic one, can have a life-changing effect on a child and its community, by lifting individuals and countries out of poverty.
“In Malawi many children are often too hungry to attend school and those who do attend are unable to concentrate due to hunger.”
Mary’s Meals began feeding 200 children in Malawi after the Scottish founder of the charity, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, visited the country in 2002.
It now feeds more than 526,000 children in places of education every day in 16 different countries