--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow by Gordon Brown: TIME 100 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcde57542356fa97f/6987eb28f887dc7845e8df76/magnus-macfarlane-barrow-time-100-2015-pioneers.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 15, 2015 # Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow by Gordon Brown  CNN Hero Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow of ?Mary?s Meals? onstage during the 2010 CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute held at The Shrine Auditorium on November 20, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. 20711\_005\_JS\_0116.JPG \*\*\* Local Caption \*\*\* CNN Hero Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow of ?Mary?s Meals? onstage during the 2010 CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute held at The Shrine Auditorium on November 20, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. 20711\_005\_JS\_0116.JPG \*\*\* Local Caption \*\*\*John Shearer—WireImage/Getty Images Scotland boasts great missionary heroes, including David Livingstone and Eric Liddell of _Chariots of Fire_ fame. Now Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow is following in their footsteps. His organization, Mary’s Meals, will soon be feeding 1 million schoolchildren across 12 countries every day. His work began in Bosnia, but a visit to Malawi, where a child told him his dream was having enough to eat, cemented his mission: to get thousands of girls and boys to come to school by providing a meal. The impact has been breathtaking. Attendance figures have risen, by as much as 50% in some areas. And Magnus is right behind the ­#UpForSchool petition to get 58 million out-of-school children ages 6 to 11 into education. This quiet-spoken father of seven won’t rest while there are children to feed and to educate and to give a chance in life. _Brown is the U.N. special envoy for global education and a former U.K. Prime Minister_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2015-time-100/3823271/magnus-macfarlane-barrow-2015-time-100/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2015-time-100/3823271/magnus-macfarlane-barrow-2015-time-100/"},"headline":"Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow","datePublished":"2015-04-15T17:42:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:22:39.827Z","description":"Schoolkids’ savior","url":"https://time.com/collections/2015-time-100/3823271/magnus-macfarlane-barrow-2015-time-100/","keywords":["TIME 100"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcde57542356fa97f/6987eb28f887dc7845e8df76/magnus-macfarlane-barrow-time-100-2015-pioneers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcde57542356fa97f/6987eb28f887dc7845e8df76/magnus-macfarlane-barrow-time-100-2015-pioneers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/2015-time-100/3823271/magnus-macfarlane-barrow-2015-time-100/","name":"Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow"}}]}] ```