9 year old Martha Payne raises $200,000 to feed children in Malawi

• Martha Payne started the NeverSeconds blog six weeks ago
• Uses it to post images and opinions about what she had been served for lunch at her school’s cafeteria in Lochgilphead, Argyll
• Blog has also raised more than £100,000 for a charity running school feeding projects in poverty-stricken communities
  
• Last week Argyll and Bute Council banned her from taking photos of food in the school canteen
• Ban was lifted 24 hours later following a storm of protest on social networks
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Martha has already raised enough money to build a kitchen shelter and feed an entire school for a year at Lirangwe Primary School in Blantyre, Malawi, as part of Mary's Meals' Sponsor a School initiative.


The nine-year-old is planning to celebrate the £100,000 milestone with a 'porridge party' re-creating likuni phala, the porridge-like dish which her money will help feed the children of Malawi.

The family is also planning to visit Malawi later in the year where they will visit Lirangwe Primary School and put the finishing touches on the sign for the school kitchen - named "Friends of NeverSeconds" - that will be built by Mary's Meals.