Monrovia-October 15, 2025: Pleasure crammed the streets of Monrovia on Sunday, October 12, as workforce Mary’s Meals joined 1000’s of runners and walkers to cross the end line of the Liberia Marathon, marking one other milestone of the charity’s participation within the occasion.
It may be recalled that the objective of Mary’s Meals’ participation on this 12 months’s marathon was not solely to succeed in the end line but in addition to extend consciousness of its “3 Million Smiles” campaign-a world initiative celebrating the group’s development from feeding simply 200 kids in Malawi in 2002 to now reaching over 3 million throughout 16 international locations.
Dressed within the charity’s blue colours, symbolizing hope and unity, runners of Mary’s Meals accomplished the marathon to shine a highlight on the significance of meals and schooling for each youngster.
The workforce was seen distributing stickers, encouraging different runners to be photographed with selfie frames that includes the three million smiles marketing campaign branding, in addition to sharing the group’s data with runners and walkers who participated within the marathon.
In a LinkedIn submit, Menue Bainda, communications supervisor of Mary’s Meals Liberia, says, “It was certainly an inspiring expertise for him on the Liberia Marathon on Sunday, October twelfth, as he had the possibility to talk to some runners in regards to the mission and impression of Mary’s Meals and the way they’ll help this system.
A worthwhile lesson he discovered yesterday is how efficient easy branding shows might be at producing curiosity—even with little or no funds.”
Thomas Gbuka, Mary’s Meals HR Studying and Growth Advisor, says, “Our participation in right this moment’s occasion is about taking part and networking with different runners from totally different backgrounds, it’s about workforce constructing, and it’s about telling those who Mary’s Meals is feeding greater than 3 million kids globally, together with in Liberia, with life-changing faculty meals each faculty day.” “The Liberia Marathon gave us the right platform to share our mission—that no youngster ought to should be taught on an empty abdomen,” stated Thomas.
Mary’s Meals supplies every day faculty meals to greater than 90,000 kids throughout 5 counties in Liberia, encouraging faculty attendance and serving to kids to focus and thrive of their research.
