An evening featuring festive music and a talk from Mary’s Meals founder Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow takes place later this month.
The event, A Very Joyful Christmas, is at St Bede’s College in Manchester on Saturday 23 November.
Tickets cost £12, which includes refreshments.
Mary’s Meals supports feeding projects in some of the world’s poorest communities where hunger and poverty prevent children from gaining an education.
Jimmy Cricket, who is a big supporter of the charity, said: “With Christmas coming soon, why not put this one in the diary for 23rd November @StBedesCollege Manchester!
“Attentees on the evening will help to feed & educate 2.5 million children from around the world @MarysMeals.
“What better way to start the festive season!”
The Sacred Heart Choir is providing the festive music on the night.
Inspiration
Book your ticket for the event online here, ring 0800 698 1212 or email info@marysmeals.org
One pound from each sale of Jimmy’s autobiography Memoirs Of An Irish Comedian, go to Mary’s Meals.
It grew out of a charity called Scottish International Relief (SIR).
SIR was set up after Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow and his brother Fergus took aid from their home in Argyll, Scotland, to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, during the conflict in 1992.
The Mary’s Meals campaign itself was born in 2002 when Magnus visited Malawi during a famine and met a mother dying from AIDS.
When Magnus asked her eldest son Edward what his dreams were in life, he replied simply: “I want to have enough food to eat and to go to school one day.”
That moment was a key part of the inspiration which led to the founding of Mary’s Meals.
The charity began by feeding 200 children in Malawi.
Today, it feeds more than two million hungry children every school day in 20 countries.
The charity is named in honour of Mary, the mother of Jesus, who brought up her own child in poverty.
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