One of Mary's Meals' projects is The Backpack Project, which encourages supporters to donate school backpacks and fill them with materials such as notebooks, pencils, flip-flops and T-shirts to send to children in Malawi. Mary's Meals īackpacks at Chisebe Primary School, Malawi The couple married and now have seven children together. Julie became committed to the charity, and its founder too. Soon after, Magnus met Julie, a nurse, who volunteered to help him deliver emergency aid. Magnus was awarded the Human Dignity Award in 2014, by the speaker of the Dail(Irish Parliament) on behalf of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) Human Dignity Group, in recognition for his contribution to human rights and dignity. He has also spoken at youth festivals and Christian conferences and other speaker events geared at a variety of audiences including entrepreneurs, food industry experts and educators. Magnus has given many public talks to audiences large and small, including delivering the key note address at the World Food Prize in 2013. Magnus has also received honorary degrees from the University of Hull, Glasgow Caledonian University, the University of Stirling and the University of Edinburgh. Magnus' book, The Shed That Fed A Million Children, reached the UK's prestigious Times and Sunday Times best-seller list immediately after its release. In April 2015, he was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours. In 2010, Magnus was praised as a CNN Hero for his role in founding and running Mary's Meals. From feeding 200 children in southern Malawi in 2002, Mary's Meals now works with communities in 12 different countries around the world, providing a meal for more than a million of children every school day. The project was registered as a charity, then named as Scottish International Relief.ĭuring a trip to Malawi in 2002, Magnus decided to attract girls and boys to school by providing meals. Magnus took a 'gap year' and has never gone back to his old job. They returned to Scotland expecting to resume work as fish farmers in Argyll, but in their absence their parents' shed had been filled with yet more donations, resulting in eventually driving from Scotland to Bosnia a total of 23 times to deliver supplies. They filled a Jeep with aid and delivered their cargo to Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Keep out of reach of children.SIR began in 1992 during the Bosnian War, when brothers Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, OBE, FRSGS, and Fergus MacFarlane-Barrow organised a local appeal for blankets and food. In case of contact with eyes, rinse immediately with plenty of water and seek medical advice. You can use either use Zero Paints Airbrush Cleaner or Basecoat Thinners, alternatively any thinners that contain Toluene should work, but it's best to test first.ĭO NOT use White Spirt or Acrylic Thinners, they are not suitable. Air drying at 20☌ Dust-free: 5 – 10 mins, Tack-free: 20 - 30 mins.įor additional thinning use Basecoat Thinners. Spray at 15 - 40 psi,ģ - 4 medium cross coats are recommended. Shake container until paint is thoroughly mixed. Zero Paints are pre-thinned for Airbrush use. Among them are polishing cloths and sponges.Īll Zero Paints dry matt and require clearcoating unless otherwise specified The company has also prepared a set of accessories intended for the use of preparations. A set of polishing pastes with three-stage gradation allows for gradual, thorough and very effective obtaining of a mirror-like surface gloss. These paints also have a matte finish, which means that both the final coating with colorless varnishes and polishing to obtain the expected, high gloss, similar to modern sports car bodies. A characteristic feature is their very high quality and the readiness of specific colors and shades. Zero Paints is a company specializing in paints, accessories and modeling chemicals intended mainly for models of modern cars in interesting colors of sports bodies.
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