Sunday October 10th 2010
Join in this celebration of Scotland’s traditional national dish to help feed needy children in some of the poorest countries across the globe.
The small Scottish Highland village of Carrbridge – home of the annual World Porridge Making Championship – has teamed up with the Scottish-based charity, Mary’s Meals to establish an international World Porridge Day.
You are invited to join porridge ambassadors across the globe to host a charity fund raising to help support the work of Mary’s Meals.
WORLD PORRIDGE DAY FUNDRAISING EVENTS 2010
Mary’s-Meals feeds over 300,000 children every day in Malawi alone. Photograph by Chris Leslie
The charity, which started from a tin shed in Argyllshire in the south west of Scotland, has one simple aim: To provide a daily meal in school for children who are growing up in poverty.
Mary’s Meals works in fifteen of the poorest countries in the world, providing daily school meals for 400,000 of the neediest children.
Each day, the youngsters are invited to their local school where they are given a mug of a healthy porridge mix fortified with vitamins and minerals. This provides them with the nutrition they need to grow, play and also learn with the aim that education will help them escape from a life of poverty.
It is a straightforward and cost effective idea – it costs just £6.15 (about €7 or $10) to feed a child in Malawi for a year.
You can support this worthy cause by getting together with family, friends or maybe workmates and hosting your own World Porridge Day fund raising event.. Just cook up a steaming pan of good hearty porridge or maybe bake some oatmeal cookies and ask everyone to make a donation, however large or small, to help support Mary’s Meals.
Mary’s Meals Countries
Providing meals in: Malawi, Haiti, Ukraine, Romania, Kenya, Sudan, Philippines, Albania, Bosnia, India, Burma / Thailand, Liberia, Uganda, Zambia.
Throughout the world, hunger blocks poor children from gaining the education that is their most likely escape route out of poverty. Mary’s Meals offers a simple solution to this problem by working with local communities to provide daily meals in school.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE 2009 EVENT, CLICK HERE
Hosting your own WORLD PORRIDGE DAY event is fun and easy
The official World Porridge Day is Sunday October 10th 2010 but you can choose whatever date suits you best.
- Decide on a venue. This could be in your own home, at work, at school or maybe you are a professional chef working in a hotel or restaurant or a B&B or guest house proprietor.
- Why not be creative? As well as traditional porridge, there are plenty of delicious recipes to choose from with porridge with all sorts of other ingredients added. Ideas for porridge / oatmeal recipes can be found on the World Porridge Making Championship official website at www.goldenspurtle.com or if you have a good recipe, maybe you would like to share it with other porridge enthusiasts across the world by adding it to the recipe section.
- You might just want to sit down round the kitchen table or works canteen or you may want to turn your WORLD PORRIDGE DAY event into a real Scottish occasion with bunting, kilts and even the sound of the bagpipes!
- You could help raise extra funds by including a raffle, bottle stall, lucky dip, whisky tasting or even a quiz with a Scottish theme.
- You may already support other charitable causes. If so, you could always host a World Porridge Day event and divide the fund raising with some of the proceeds going towards helping support Mary’s Meals.
Whatever you choose to do, we want to hear about your fund raising efforts. Please just email us at worldporridge@aol.com.
Your donation, however small or large, will really help Mary’s Meals in their mission to reach out to the poorest children around the globe.
2009 MEDIA COVERAGE OF WORLD PORRIDGE DAY, CLICK HERE
The pupils of Kingussie High School supporting the work of Mary’s Meals, watch their film here.
Find out more about Mary’s Meals – www.marysmeals.org
