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One devoted man is helping to make sure that children with poor living conditions won't go hungry during the school day.
Mary’s Meals, an organization founded in 2002 by Scottish farmer Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow, provides needy kids in 12 countries with free meals at school each weekday. The group's aim is to ensure that students have food in their stomachs so they can better fix their attention on the study in class.
Macfarlane-Barrow, who runs Mary’s Meals on his father's farm, told CNN that the entire operation started with a conversation he had with a teen living in a poor state. He said, ''In 2002, I was in Malawi during a year of terribly short of food, and I met this family — the father had died, and the mother was dying with her six children around her. I began talking to her oldest child, Edward, who was about 14, and asked him, 'What are your hopes? 'And he said, 'I'd like to have enough food to eat, and I'd like to go to school one day. ''' And that was it.
In its first year, the group fed 200 children in need. Since that time, it has made rapid progress. Last month, Mary's Meals fed more than one million children every school day. That was 5 million meals every week. ''The million is amazingly important, but we are far from satisfied. Our work's just beginning. We’ve proved that this works, and now we've just thinking about the next child, '' said Macfarlane-Barrow.
He and the group recently celebrated the achievement in Malawi, where the program began. So far, the program has had very good results. In Malawi, schools that carried out the Mary's Meals program saw a 24 percent increase in the number of new students within the first six months.
1.Why did Macfarlane-Barrow found Mary's Meals?
A.He hoped to provide free food for poor families.
B.He expected to teach children how to help others.
C.He wished to become well-known by helping others.
D.He wanted to make children free of hunger in class.
2.What made Macfarlane-Barrow have the idea to start Mary's Meals?
A.The conversation with a poor child. B.The success of helping a needy kid.
C.The terribly short of food in Malawi. D.The poor living conditions of schools
3.What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?
A.Schools in Malawi are popular.
B.No children suffer from hunger now.
C.Macfarlane-Barrow is satisfied with the result.
D.Mary's Meals program has been very successful.
4.What is the main idea of the text?
A.Edward's dream has come true.
B.A farmer feeds one million kids every school day.
C.Malawi gets away from being short of food.
D.Mary's Meals program has shocked the world.
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