The Empty Bowls Project

The Empty Bowls Project is a movement to raise awareness and fight against hunger. The concept is simple, students handcraft bowls that are later sold at an Ice Cream Social. When you fill your bowl you help others whose bowls are empty. At the end of the event you take an empty bowl home as a reminder that there are still many empty bowls in our world but during the ice-cream social you helped filled the bowls of many children with your donation.
Students in 4th and 6th grade have participated in this project with students from el Hogar del Niño in La Romana. 

El Hogar del Niño is an organization who helps underprivileged children in a rural area of the Dominican Republic. They not only offer them schooling and all their daily meals but they also have a social worker, a pediatric doctor and dentist and a number of after school and weekend activities to keep children healthy and happy. All proceeds from this project will go to Hogar del Niño in la Romana and the Empty Bowls Ice Cream social is kindly sponsored by Haagen Daz.