CEOMary's Meals
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow OBE, is founder and CEO of Mary’s Meals, a global charity providing meals for over 2.4 million of the world’s poorest children. This daily meal attracts children to the classroom, where they can gain an education and a route out of poverty.
In 2002, while in Malawi, he met a young boy Edward and asked him what he hoped for in life. “To have enough to eat and to be able to go to school one day,” he said. Edward’s words inspired a mission to bring hungry children to school by providing Mary’s Meals. Working in partnership with some of the world’s poorest communities, Magnus now leads a mission that works in 18 countries
A CNN Hero for his work in 2010, Magnus was also named one of Time magazine's ‘100 most influential people in the world’. His first book The Shed That Fed A Million Children, was a Sunday Times bestseller and is now fully updated as The Shed That Fed 2 Million Children. A second book, GIVE: Charity and the Art of Living Generously followed in 2020