# My Weekly magazine begins its 14th annual Helping Hand Appeal

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/10/23/my-weekly-magazine-begins-its-14th-annual-helping-hand-appeal/
- Published: 2013-10-23T10:23:14+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

DC Thomson woman’s magazine, My Weekly, has launched its 14th annual Helping Hand
Appeal this week with Scotland-based charity [Mary’s Meals](http://www.marysmeals.org.uk).
The money raised will support hungry children living in poverty in Kenya.

Since the appeal was first run in 1999 in response to the magazine’s report on the
plight of children in Romania, My Weekly readers have donated three quarters of 
a million pounds to help children in Romania, Malawi, Liberia, East Africa, Haiti
and India.

[My Weekly](http://www.myweekly.co.uk) Editor Sally Hampton said: “Last year alone[
our readers] generated over £35,000 for Mary’s Meals and I hope that they’ll get
behind this year’s appeal which helps children in Kenya.”

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