Dear Editor
As we approach the end of a year that has been unlike any other, I’m sure some of your readers, like myself, will be thinking of those we hold dear who are unable to join the family Christmas meal this year.
I’d like to suggest a simple, last-minute gift that will help connect people in Edinburgh and Midlothian with their loved ones and feed hungry children around the world.
Mary’s Meals, a charity reaching more than 1.6 million children every day in some of the world’s poorest countries, is hosting a virtual Christmas dinner. For just £15.90 – enough to feed a child every day for an entire school year – your readers can set a place at our table for their friends and family. Their name will appear online and we’ll provide a digital placemat to pass on as a present.
This year your gifts will go twice as far, with each place set now feeding two children with Mary’s Meals for an entire school year. Give until 31 January 2021 and public donations will be doubled by the UK government, up to £2 million – meaning we can reach even more hungry children in Liberia with life-changing school meals.
Please visit marysmeals.org.uk/Christmas to set your place.
Wishing you a peaceful and happy Christmas,
Daniel Adams
Executive Director, Mary’s Meals UK.
