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Meals for people facing hunger

HealthcareAcross several organisationsRoughly the past decadeFunded by John Margerison
What was given

Funded meals for a decade. About 1.5 million of them, at the rates the organisations use.

Large-scale hunger relief campaigns, and smaller programmes feeding people directly. Different organisations, different years, different scales.

The conversion is theirs, not his. A dollar goes further through them than it ever would directly: bulk purchasing, logistics and donated food are all behind that number, which is the entire reason for giving through them rather than around them.

"About 1.5 million meals" is a conversion rather than a count. It is the total given, divided by the cost-per-meal figures the organisations publish themselves. Nobody counted 1.5 million plates, and a number that large deserves to show its working.

It is the least photogenic strand of the four and the easiest to explain. A meal costs what it costs. Multiply it by ten years.

Photography to be supplied.

Placeholder imagery was deliberately not seeded.

The detail

Delivered by
Several organisations, at differing scales
Period
Roughly the past decade
Meals funded
Approximately 1.5 million
Programmes
Large hunger-relief campaigns and smaller direct feeding programmes
How the figure is reached
Each organisation's own cost-per-meal rate, not an estimate made here
Why the rate is low
Bulk purchasing, existing logistics and donated food
Status of the figure
A conversion, not a headcount of plates served
Cost to recipients
None
A dollar goes further through them than it ever would through me.
John MargerisonOn why the money goes through delivery organisations rather than around them

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