{"id":21794,"date":"2022-12-20T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T11:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/?p=21794"},"modified":"2022-12-20T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T11:56:56","slug":"a-thank-you-from-marys-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/2022\/12\/20\/a-thank-you-from-marys-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"A thank you from Mary&#8217;s Meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you so much for your precious gift of \u00a3300.00, which is helping us to transform the lives of hungry children around the world with a nutritious daily meal in school.<br \/>\nYour kindness is bringing food, joy and hope to the children who eat Mary\u2019s Meals, allowing them to make the most of their education and giving them the chance of a better future.<\/p>\n<p>As part of our Double The Love appeal, your donation will be matched \u2013 all thanks to a group of generous donors who are doubling donations, up to \u00a31.5 million, at this time. This means your gift will feed even more hungry children with Mary\u2019s Meals.<\/p>\n<p>Our meals make a huge difference to children like Aung who came to Thailand as a baby from Myanmar. Now 15, Aung who works during the week, attends school at the weekend, where he hopes he can learn his way to a better future.<br \/>\nHe says: \u201cI am grateful to those who support us with lunch meals, rice and curry at school. I\u2019d like to thank your donors for supporting our future generation at school.\u201d<br \/>\nToday, more than two million hungry children in 20 of the world\u2019s poorest countries \u2013 including South Sudan, Ethiopia, India and Yemen \u2013 are sitting in classrooms with full stomachs, and learning how to read and write, thanks to supporters like you.<br \/>\nTogether, we are\u00a0bringing the hope of a brighter future to so many little ones who depend on the promise of a daily meal in school. I thank you, with all my heart, on behalf of\u00a0the children who\u00a0eat Mary\u2019s Meals.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Adams<br \/>\nExecutive Director, Mary\u2019s Meals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you so much for your precious gift of \u00a3300.00, which is helping us to transform the lives of hungry children around the world with a nutritious daily meal in school. Your kindness is bringing food, joy and hope to the children who eat Mary\u2019s Meals, allowing them to make the most of their education &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/2022\/12\/20\/a-thank-you-from-marys-meals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A thank you from Mary&#8217;s Meals<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2084,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whole-school"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2084"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21795,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21794\/revisions\/21795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}