With Empty Bowls, you and your children can take part in a way that encourages creativity and nurtures global learning at a young age through a medium that kids love – art.

• Teachers teach children about World Food Day and some general facts about hunger that will be provided by Action Against Hunger
  
  
• Children make bowls out of clay and paint them in solidarity with the 800 million people – especially children – who face an empty bowl every day
  
  
• Discount school packages of "Sculptey Clay," paints and glaze. The Sculptey clay can be fired in an ordinary oven.
  
  
• Parents buy bowls and donate proceeds to Action Against Hunger's hunger relief efforts
  
  
• Action Against Hunger's fieldworkers visit the school to talk to parents, faculty, and staff about the organization's work. (At Greenwich High School, two hundred parents made donations and received ceramic bowls. The students introduced the topic and Action Against Hunger's water and sanitation engineer David Blanc, and nurse-nutritionist Diane Filter spoke about our mission, programs, and personal experiences on the field.)
  

• The best bowls can be displayed at the benefit gala on World Food Day at Tavern on the Green

 How have kids been involved in World Food Day?

On World Food Day 2000, kids on Long Island participated in their 13th annual WFD essay competition. Kids in Baltimore conducted a citywide food collection with a goal of 250,000 pounds of food. And students across the country are participating in the growing Empty Bowl project.

What will the Empty Bowls project in my school for World Food Day allow Action Against Hunger to do?

• Continue to save lives of the most vulnerable victims of hunger: children under 5, refugees, and displaced people
  
  
• Attack hunger on 4 fronts: nutrition, health, water/sanitation, and food security
  
  
• Fund programs of emergency relief and long-term sustainable development in 40 countries plagued by war, conflict, and natural disaster
  
  
• With 91% of our funds going directly to proven field programs, virtually all money raised is used to fight hunger

We hope that you will bring Empty Bowls to your school. We would provide you with any information or adapt the project to your needs, and we could arrange to speak at your school with our fieldworkers. World Food Day is a wonderful opportunity to teach our young children about something positive they can do while furthering a sense of global community and caring.

For further information please contact Anna Kar at (212) 967-7800 or anna@aah-usa.org.