We are the SHACATHON People, students of Ampleforth College supporting Mary's Meals through Face-Faw, and through this Ampleforth Abbey Trust Justgiving page.  Thank you for visiting our SHACATHON JustGiving page.

We support Mary's Meals and in particular through Mary's Meals, we support Chigwaja Primary School in Malawi - trying to provide a meal each day for its 951 children. We ask you for sponsorship for these children through SHACATHON.

MARY's MEALS is an international movement that sets up school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education - feeding now 1,101,206 children in 12 countries every school day and costing £12.20/$14.50 to feed a child for a year.  Ampleforth/Face-Faw needs £11,887 to feed 951 children at Chigwaja for one year - through SHACATHON.

In SHACATHON, collectively, we cycled, swam and ran the distance of 814,000 metres - that is 505.79 miles, the distance from Ampleforth to Paris, on Sunday 28 February 2016.  We cycled 301.98 miles [equivalent of Ampleforth to Dover], swam 21.75 miles [1400 lengths of the pool] (Dover to Calais) and ran 182.06 miles (Calais to Paris] - adding everyone together, 500 taking part. It took about three hours or a combined total of 48 hours, 31 minutes.

For each House, 50 took part - covering 50.57 miles - 20 cycling on machines in total 30.198 miles; 10 swimming 14 lengths each [in all 2.175 miles]; 20 running in total 18.20 miles.  

We did all this at Ampleforth - cycling on machines and swimming, then running outside. 500 of us trying to support those who need food, providing meals for the children of Chigwaja Primary School in Blantyre in Malawi.

Please help us to support Mary's Meals.  For £12.20 you provide meals for one child at Chigwaja for one year.  Overall £11,887 provides meals for one year. If you could sponsor us with two children that means £24.40. 

Donating to Mary's Meals via Face-Faw/Ampleforth Abbey Trust JustGiving Page is simple, it is fast and it is secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, Justgiving send your sponsorship money direct though Face-Faw/Ampleforth Abbey Trust to Mary's Meals. So it’s efficient, it works well we think. 

In SHACATHON we are trying to feed those who are hungry.  Many of the children at Chigwaja will only eat this one meal each day.

SHACATHON is a Face-Faw event to support Mary's Meals.

on behalf of all students at Ampleforth

1 February 2016, updated 5 March 2016

Michael Higham, Lucy Bidie, Joshua Baxter, Mary Plowden, Louis Cunningham, Maria-Sofia Budgen, Diederik Brenninkmeiyer, Georgina Eglinton, James Gordon, Henry Kirk, Eve Langford, William Plowden, Honor Ripley, Joseph Ruane, Matthew Welton

Obinna Akahara, Frances Channer, Gaspard Douville de Ranssu, Alfred Drummond-Herdon, Alexander Hall, Christian Harte,  Edward Johnson-Ferguson, Christian Laczko- Schroeder, Tessa Pelham, Ben Sanders, Hector Swinburne, Rupert Waley, Patrick Williamson, Imogen Wood, Tom Worth.  

Julian Boecker, Friederik Artus Byloff, Willa Codrington, Pierre de Metz-Noblet, Gonzalo Herranz Sarrion, Archie Hewitt, Dara Hunter Blair, Lily Langford, Jasper Mohan, Charlotte Morrison, Patrick Morrison, Osita Odile

Alastair Bett, Jay Desai, Felix Fawcett, Edward Gibson, Liam Kehoe, James Laczko-Schroeder, Indigo Mason-Hornby, Patrick McInerney, Arthur Owens, Eduardo Perez de Castro, Katie Radcliffe, Marcus Roberts, Matilda Tidmarsh, Tom Ward, Natalya Wolloshin.

Jacque Finlan, Manuel Lapique Tassara, Charlie Rohan, Ruby Stuart, Maria Toone, Patricio Troop,