Mary’s Meals donates food to cyclone survivors

Mary’s Meals has donated 40 metric tonnes of Likuni Phala worth K35 million to 24 000 Cyclone Freddy survivors in the Southern Region.

Speaking on Monday during the event at Lunzu Primary School in Blantyre, Mary’s Meals country director Angela Chipeta Khonje said they were responding to President Lazarus Chakwera’s call for support.

She said: “We work in the communities that have been affected by the cyclone. These are the same communities that have made our school-feeding programme successful.

“Therefore, when the President and the Ministry of Education made the appeal, we felt that we should help the children with Likuni Phala.”

Minister of Education Madalitso Kambauwa Wirima thanked Mary’s Meals for the donation.

She said: “Let me thank Mary’s Meals for the gesture. We are going through difficult times. We are particularly delighted to receive food that will help children in camps.

“We also thank Mary’s Meals for supporting the ministry with the school-feeding programme which encourages pupils to go to school.”

Mary’s Meals supports government’s school-feeding programme which seeks to motivate learners to remain in school.

The country was hit by Cyclone Freddy last week which has so far killed 499 people and displaced 508 244 others in the Southern Region.