Mary’s Meals Backpack Appeal 🎒💜

This term we have been learning about Magnus MacFarlane Barrow.  He is the founder of Mary’s Meals which is a charity that provides children with a daily meal in their place of education.  Mary’s Meals work in countries all over the world to try and beat poverty and ensure that children attend school so that they have the chance of a better future.  

Another project the charity do is the backpack appeal.  This is where they collect backpacks filled with useful items and send them to children in developing countries who have never had a backpack.

We decided we wanted to help and so organised the backpack appeal in our school.  We advertised the project and wrote to parents asking them if they could donate any backpacks or useful items to us.

When we had gathered everything in, we had to sort it all.  We separated all the items into groups and were very pleased by the amount of donations we received.  At first, it was hard to work with other people to organise but we got there 🤪😂

After everything was sorted, we then began to put the items into the backpacks, making sure that there was an equal amount in each backpack.

Thank you to everyone who donated.  These backpacks will change the life of the child who receives it.