Magnus grew up on a small farm in Argyll, Scotland, in a big, busy family. As a boy, he loved being outdoors and never imagined he would end up helping millions of children he would never meet.

In 1992, when he was in his twenties, Magnus watched news reports about the war in Bosnia. Families were fleeing their homes with almost nothing. He felt he couldn't just watch and do nothing, so he and his brother asked their neighbours to donate food, clothes and blankets. They loaded them into an old Land Rover and drove to Bosnia themselves to deliver them.

That one trip changed the direction of his life. He kept going back, kept listening to what people actually needed, and kept finding more people willing to help. In 2002, a mother in Malawi told him her greatest wish was simply that her children would have enough food to go to school. Her words stayed with him, and they became the seed of something much bigger than he ever planned.

Today Magnus is known as the founder of Mary's Meals, a charity that feeds children in some of the world's poorest communities so they can get an education.

Magnus is known for building Mary's Meals into a movement that now feeds over two million children a school meal every day, in more than a dozen countries. But he is just as proud of how it was built, because that story is really about empathy, humility and teamwork.

It started with empathy. Watching families in Bosnia lose everything made Magnus imagine how he would feel in their place, and that feeling turned into action rather than staying as sympathy.

It grew through teamwork. Magnus never wanted to do this alone, and he still doesn't. Mary's Meals depends on local communities, volunteers, cooks and donors all over the world working together, each contributing what they can.

And it has stayed true to its purpose because of humility. Magnus doesn't see himself as a hero. He sees himself as someone who listened to a mother's simple wish and tried to help make it happen, alongside thousands of others doing the same.