The Ave Maria University chapter of Mary's Meals will hold a fundraising event Thursday, March 27, from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Bean.

Admission is $5 and proceeds will help in the group's evort to raise money for a school kitchen in Malawi, Africa.

The idea of Mary's Meals is simple. "By providing one daily meal in a place of learning, chronically poor children are attracted into a classroom where they receive an education that can, in the future, be their ladder out of poverty."

The event will include entertainment from Donahue Academy students, a screening of a brief informationl video called Child 31, and a talk by Fr. Robert McTeigue on reasons to support the AMU Mary's Meals effort.

RSVP would be helpful, either by phone at 515-802-9565 or email at katharine.blong@my.avemaria.edu or katieblong@gmail.com.