{"id":30285,"date":"2023-10-23T17:32:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/?p=30285"},"modified":"2023-10-23T17:32:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:32:49","slug":"congratulations-marys-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/congratulations-marys-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Mary\u00b4s Meals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysmeals.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mary&#8217;s Meals<\/a>, an international NGO that fights child hunger in 18 underprivileged countries, including Liberia, has been awarded the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord.<\/p>\n<p>Mary&#8217;s Meals provides meals to nearly 2.5 million children every day, and it does so in schools, which has a double effect: it attracts hungry children to school and gives them the energy they need to concentrate and participate in class, so they can receive education and have better opportunities for the future.<\/p>\n<p>The Princess of Asturias Award jury highlighted the NGO&#8217;s efforts to solve child hunger and the effectiveness of its innovative working model, which allows for the optimal use of resources.<\/p>\n<p>In Liberia, a country where 16% of the families have difficulties to ensure the necessary food, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysmeals.org\/what-we-do\/where-we-work\/liberia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mary&#8217;s Meals has been present since 2006<\/a>. There, more than 150,000 children benefit from the NGO&#8217;s programs in 669 schools throughout the country, especially in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>Our warmest congratulations to the organization for the award.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary&#8217;s Meals, an international NGO that fights child hunger in 18 underprivileged countries, including Liberia, has been awarded the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord. Mary&#8217;s Meals provides meals to nearly 2.5 million children every day, and it does so in schools, which has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":30288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-are-like-you-en-en"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30286,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30285\/revisions\/30286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}