Over recent months, I have been visiting many wonderful schools to share the remarkable story of Mary’s Meals. I tell the children about Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, a fish farmer who took a week off work to drive aid from Scotland to Bosnia-Herzegovina when war engulfed that country during the 1990s.
I show them the tin shed in his garden where he stored the aid – the shed that is still our global headquarters – and explain that Magnus never went back to his former work because donations of food and blankets kept flooding into the shed. He ended up driving to Bosnia 23 times.
