Why Visit?
Join us in the Blue Container
Mary’s Meals is a Fruit of Medjugorje and a global charity which provides daily school meals to some of the world’s poorest children to help them to gain both an education and a brighter future. We invite you to enrich your Međugorje pilgrimage by stopping to visit us at the blue container.
A visit to Mary's Meals offers pilgrims a powerful testimony of how the grace of Medjugorje is helping to provide a daily meal in a place of education to more than 2.5 million children worldwide, showing how faith and small acts of love are transforming lives. Yet, 71 million school-age children are still missing school because of poverty and hunger.
What We Offer
By bringing your pilgrims to hear about Mary's Meals, they will gain a deeper understanding of the grace of Medjugorje and a receive tangible opportunities to put their faith into action when they return home. Your pilgrims will:
- Experience a moving story of faith-in-action, learning how a visit to Medjugorje and the messages of Our Lady inspired Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow to found Mary’s Meals.
- Gain insights into global hunger through documentaries and first-hand stories from children whose lives are transformed by daily school meals.
- Deepen their understanding of charity in alignment with Our Lady’s messages, witnessing how small acts of love can transform the life of both - those who give and those who receive.
- Reflect on how faith-in-action changes lives and be inspired to act—and spread the mission of Mary’s Meals in your country whether by volunteering, supporting the mission, or becoming a volunteer to help it grow.
- Participate in the Mary’s Meals Fasting Initiative, answering Our Lady’s call to prayer and sacrifice, by fasting in solidarity with the poor and hungry and donate the money saved by fasting to the children which we feed.
- A visit enriches both first-time and returning pilgrims, offering a way to deepen their experience and stay connected to Međugorje’s spirituality by engaging with Mary’s Meals in their own country.
Request a Testimony or Screening
If you are interested in joining us in the Blue Container, either as an individual or as part of a larger group, we would love to welcome you! We can also bring a testimony to a location that works for you in Medjugorje. Simply click the button below to fill out our form and a member of our team will be in touch.
Watch the trailers for our most popular films available at the Blue Container below
Child 31
This moving film tells the remarkable story of Mary’s Meals and gives viewers a chance to hear from some of the children we are reaching through our work. Duration 33 minutes. (Trailer below)
Generation Hope
Generation Hope is a beautiful film that shares the stories of just some of the young people who, having enjoyed Mary’s Meals as children, are now part of a new generation beginning to find its voice and help to build a brighter future. Duration 36 minutes. (Trailer below)
Mary's Meals - Fruit of Medjugorje
This short film explains the relationship between Mary’s Meals and Medjugorje through the history of the organisation and the story of the family. (Trailer below)
Love Reaches Everywhere
Find out what happened when Gerard Butler swapped the bright lights of Hollywood for classrooms in Haiti and Liberia. Through this film, you can travel with him as he meets some of the real-life heroes at the very heart of Mary’s Meals. (Trailer below)
