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Fundraising for Mary's Meals           10/10/11

Pupils at Sgoil Lionacleit are holding a week of events to raise awareness of the work of Scottish-based charity Mary's Meals.

Today, Monday 10 October is World Porridge Day which Mary's Meals use as a celebration of a traditional Scottish dish and the chance to raise awareness of the work of the charity which feeds over 500,000 children worldwide each day.

The activities happening at Sgoil Lionacleit are:

Monday - Assembly for S1 and S3 with a power point presentation provided by S3. Fr Michael MacConald speaking on the topic of Caring. The oat bake sale.

Tuesday 11 Oct - Lionacleit's Got Talent (show) admission fee - donation

Thursday 13 Oct - Strip the Willow involving the whole school with music by the feis group. Bucket collection.

For many in the UK, porridge is a hearty breakfast, but to over 479,000 school-children in Malawi who receive a daily mug of maize-based likuni phala from Mary’s Meals, it is a powerful incentive to go school, and the only reassurance that they will get something nutritious to eat each day.

Mary’s Meals provides a daily meal to chronically hungry children in a place of education to attract them to school, where they can get an education which could lift them out of poverty in later life.

It costs Mary’s Meals just £6.15 to provide a daily meal to child for a whole school year.

Abeer Macintyre of Mary’s Meals, said: “World Porridge Day gives people a chance to eat porridge on that day as a show of solidarity for children whom it is the only meal of the day – and they’re the lucky ones.

“I think it’s a really vital message that something which is a simple breakfast over here can mean the difference between getting an education and not getting one for a child in Malawi.”

Now in its third year, World Porridge Day began when the Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championships, held annually in the Scottish Highland village of Carrbridge, teamed up with the charity Mary’s Meals to create the international day.  Now on the 10/10 every year, celebrations will take place across the world to mark the occasion.

World Porridge Day has been a scene of culinary experimentation and invention over the past few years, turning an old classic into a myriad of fresh new dishes.

This year Gaelic singer John Boa from Strathglass won the Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championships.  World Porridge Day is organised by Mary’s Meals, with support from Carrbridge Community Council.

 

A simple recipe for authentic likuni phala:

1. Grind one cup of cooked soya beans and four cups of dried maize kernels into flour (or use soya and maize flour).

2. Use 1½ cups of water to ½ cup of flour mixture. Bring to the boil for about 15mins.

3. Add fruit/ milk/ groundnut flour to taste.