Mary's Meals 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord

At its meeting in Oviedo, the Jury for the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord, composed of Fernando de Almansa Moreno-Barreda, Viscount of Castillo de Almansa, Ernesto Antolin Arribas, Bernardo Calleja Fernández, Alfredo Canteli Fernández, Carlos Casanueva Varas, Manuel Contreras Caro, Jacobo Cosmen Menéndez-Castañedo, Ignacio Eyriès García de Vinuesa, Isidro Fainé Casas, Ana Isabel Fernández Álvarez, Pedro Luis Fernández Pérez, José Antonio Fernández Rivero, Luis Fernández-Vega Sanz, Sabino García Vallina, Ignacio Garralda Ruiz de Velasco, Ana González Rodríguez, Jaime Gorbeña Yllera, Eduardo Hochschild, Laureano Lourido Artime, Marcelino Marcos Líndez, Pedro Martín Barón, Enrique Moreno González, Carlos Navalpotro Fuster, José Oliu i Creus, María del Pino Calvo-Sotelo, Gregorio Rabanal Martínez, Matías Rodríguez Inciarte, Gonzalo Sánchez Martínez, Juan Sánchez-Calero Guilarte, Antonio Suárez Gutiérrez, Gonzalo Urquijo Fernández de Araoz, Manuel Villa-Cellino Torre, Ignacio Ybarra Aznar, chaired by Adrián Barbón Rodríguez and with Pedro de Silva Cienfuegos-Jovellanos acting as secretary, has decided to grant the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord to the British non-profit organization Mary’s Meals for its exemplary dedication to alleviating some of the most pressing problems in today’s world.

Applying an efficient and imaginative management model that enables optimization of resources, Mary’s Meals provides food each day to more than two million children in crisis zones on three continents, at the same time as fostering school attendance.

Oviedo, 14th June 2023