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As he’s sitting in a shed at a salmon farm in Argyll, a remote part of Scotland, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow’s life is only seemingly calm. He quit his farming career in 1992 and threw himself into the charity business. This led him to fund Mary’s Meals in 2002.
The name of the charity for the ScottishCatholic was as obvious as it was providential.
But his first charity baby was Scottish International Relief. Driven by an impulse of the heart during the Balkan conflict in 1992, he and his brother Fergus loaded a jeep with aid and joined a convoy traveling to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, to distribute it. As a “mountain of donations” flooded in — he drove there 23 times to deliver supplies.
“This shed was full to the roof of food and clothing and people kept on giving, and so I had this choice to make — and it was a surprise to me,” he told OSV News.
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The name of the charity for the ScottishCatholic was as obvious as it was providential.
But his first charity baby was Scottish International Relief. Driven by an impulse of the heart during the Balkan conflict in 1992, he and his brother Fergus loaded a jeep with aid and joined a convoy traveling to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, to distribute it. As a “mountain of donations” flooded in — he drove there 23 times to deliver supplies.
“This shed was full to the roof of food and clothing and people kept on giving, and so I had this choice to make — and it was a surprise to me,” he told OSV News.
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Meet the man who feeds 2.4 million schoolchildren every day
Discover how one man’s faith and commitment to helping others built a global charity dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
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