Empty Bowls

Today the students participated in a service project to help raise money for Magic City Harvest (http://www.magiccityharvest.org/).  This organization takes left-over food from restaurants and schools (even Shades Cahaba!) to area shelters, utilizing food that is all ready prepared to feed to the hungry in our area.

Magic City Harvest's biggest fundraiser of the year is called the "Empty Bowl Project."  Children from around the Birmingham area paint and/or make bowls that are then donated.  On April 3rd, Magic City Harvest hosts a luncheon (http://www.magiccityharvest.org/newsandevents) where people purchase the bowls and also get delicious soup made by local chefs.

Check out these beautiful pieces of artwork that your children made.  It was so much fun to watch them work with such smiles on their faces, knowing that they will not only be making someone smile while eating soup, cereal or ice cream out of the bowls, but knowing that in that process they were also helping to fill the bellies of the hungry in our area.