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Full Hearts at Empty Bowls Event

More than 100 guests attended an Empty Bowls luncheon on Saturday, February 11 at Roots Farm to benefit the Baltimore Hunger Project. The Greatest Good McDonogh event was a collaboration between two Middle School classes. Students in Holly Thompson’s 3-D Design class made the pottery bowls and those in the Farm to Fork class worked with Farmer Sharon Hood and Chef Mallory Staley to plan the menu and prepare the soup, bread, and cookies served at the event.

Empty Bowls, an international movement, began in 1990 to remind people about the plight of world hunger. In January, students in the two McDonogh classes met with the Founder and Executive Director of the Baltimore Hunger Project, Lynne Kahn who explained that many students in underserved neighborhoods do not have access to food on the weekends when their schools are not in session.

In addition to raising more than $2,000 for the Baltimore Hunger Project, students who planned and hosted the Empty Bowls effort realized their power to do good in the world.