Scottish charity Mary's Meals wins £5m funding

A Scottish charity that provides meals to more than a million impoverished children around the world is to benefit from £5 million in UK government funding.

A volunteer cook from Scottish charity Marys Meals, which is to receive £5 million funding from the UK government, serves food to a girl in Malawi. Picture: PA

Mary’s Meals will receive the cash after its Feed Our Future campaign was selected for the Department for International Development’s (DFID) UK Aid Match scheme.

The funding will go towards a project to expand and develop the charity’s school feeding programmes in Malawi and Zambia.

Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, Mary’s Meals founder and chief executive, said: “We are so thankful to our quite amazing supporters.”