Innovate Services announces partnership with Mary’s Meals charity

24 July 2012

Innovate Services Ltd, the innovative catering facilities operator to the
education sector, has announced it is supporting Mary’s Meals as its
designated charity.  Mary’s Meals is a global movement that sets up school
feeding projects in some of the world’s poorest communities, where poverty
and hunger prevent children from gaining an education.

The idea behind Mary’s Meals is a simple one that works. The charity
provides one daily meal in a place of learning in order to attract
chronically hungry children into a classroom, where they receive an
education that can, in the future, be their ladder out of poverty.

Mary’s Meals began by feeding just 200 children in Malawi in 2002. Today,
the charity is providing daily meals to over 650,000 hungry children every
day in 16 different countries across the world, including Kenya, Haiti,
Uganda, Liberia and India. It costs Mary’s Meals just £10.70 to feed a child
for a whole school year.

As part of its commitment to the charity, Innovate will be donating 4p for
every bottle of water sold at its 65+ sites across the UK, which is enough
to feed one child at school for a day. 

Representatives from Mary’s Meals will be visiting a number of Innovate’s
school sites over the coming school terms to provide students with an
insight into the work the charity carries out and to educate them about how
donations are used to provide vital food aid to vulnerable children across
the world.

Abeer Macintyre, Head of Supporter Care at Mary’s Meals, said, “We are
delighted and excited by this initiative by Innovate. By simply purchasing a
bottle of water, you can buy a meal for one of the world’s poorest children.
That meal will be life-changing for them. This is a perfect example of
global citizenship and we are extremely grateful to Innovate for playing its
part in creating a more equal world where those of us who have so much are
able to share with those who lack even the most basic things.”

Nick Freeman, Student & Client Liaison, Innovate Services said, “Mary’s
Meals is such a worthy cause, providing food to hungry children in their
local schools in areas where poverty and hunger is a major issue.  The work
the charity undertakes offers a double benefit as not only is the child
receiving a vital meal but gaining an education, which may help towards
improved future prospects. Here at Innovate, we are so pleased to be working
with Mary’s Meals to raise awareness of famine in the Third World, by
presenting the campaign to students here in the UK.”

For further information regarding Innovate Services, visit
http://innovate-services.com/marys.htm. For more details regarding Mary’s
Meals or to make a donation visit http://www.marysmeals.org.uk/.