Mary’s Meals Liberia Helps Over 3,000 Children at 22 New Schools in Gbarpolu County

By: Henry Gboluma

Gbarpolu County, Bopolu City,–Wednesday, February 18, 2025- Mary’s Meals is keeping its promise to provide daily meals to schoolchildren. More than 3,000 children are now receiving hot meals at 22 new schools in Gbarma and Bopolu Districts.

This new school feeding program started on February 17, 2025 to help more children who need food to focus in school. With these additions, Gbarpolu County now currently has 25 schools in the Mary’s Meals program, including 3 that have been providing meals for over 10 years.

To celebrate the first day of meals, the Mary’s Meals team was joined by local leaders to see the children getting their first bowls of food at Gbarma Central Elementary School and the Gbarma Day Care Foundation respectively.

Quoi Kamara, the program lead for Mary’s Meals in Liberia, explained that the meals help children stay in school and learn better. He encouraged the community to protect and support the program by volunteering for cooking and serving meals every day.

Gbarma District Commissioner Musa D. Kamara thanked Mary’s Meals and urged everyone to stop selling food meant for the children. He warned that anyone caught misusing the food would face serious consequences.

The feeding program also helps young children start their education and stay in school, giving them a chance for a better future.

Felecia G. Gbarzon, principal of the Gbarma Day Care Foundation, expressed gratitude for the support and asked for the program to expand throughout Gbarpolu County and Liberia. She believes that the meals will encourage more children to enroll and do well in school.

Brima S.N. Sheriff, the PTA chair, called on parents to see the Mary’s Meals School Feeding Program as a reason to send their children to school. He reminded them not to use the lack of food as an excuse and urged them to help provide firewood for cooking.

Mary’s Meals is a global organization that gives nutritious meals to children in some of the poorest communities around the world. Since 2006, it has served over 100,000 children in more than 600 schools across five counties in Liberia.

Edited: Jesefu Morris Keita| Edited-In-Chief