121 Habitat Street, Americus, Georgia 31709. Empty Bowls Empty Bowls is an international project to fight hunger. It originated in Michigan in 1991, when a high school ceramics teacher had students make bowls for a faculty luncheon. In exchange for a donation, guests received a simple meal and the bowl from which they ate. After the meal, the bowl served as a permanent reminder that there are always those whose bowls remain empty.
Participants create ceramic bowls, then serve a simple meal of soup and bread.
Guests choose a bowl to use that day and to keep as a reminder that there are always empty bowls in the world. In exchange for the meal and the bowl, the guest gives a suggested minimum donation of ten dollars. It receives donations to continue to administer this project and several others that it created to fight hunger. It has a fine packet of resources, information, organizing ideas, and names and addresses of hunger related organizations. There have been 291 accesses to this page since January 4, 2000.