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[morgaina]

We didn't have class today, so rather than spending time at my desk keeping up with paperwork, like a fool I volunteered to teach a class to teachers at the regional education conference.
I've taught in previous years too, but this time I (attempted to) taught teachers how to make nice handbuilt ceramic bowls to then teach their students in hopes of getting more Empty Bowls projects happening regionally http://www.emptybowls.net/.

Two lovely little ladies from a Catholic school began to make plans for an Empty Bowls during Lent, if that happens I will be so happy.
This is one of my favorite charities and such a good thing for students to take part in. I have my students do bowls for two of these a year.

My students are 95% from families living in poverty and have always been on the receiving end of charity, being on the giving end when we make bowls is a real stretch for some, I have seen the looks on their faces go from outrage, to some confusion, to understanding with this project. After I explained about Empty Bowls one particularly belligerent kid, screamed that he couldn't afford to give donations, then after the Empty Bowls event he said amazed: "You mean because of the bowls I made poor people will get $60?"
A moment of enlightenment.

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[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

I should also mention people do this all over the country. Earc (who is on my friends list) has worked on an Empty Bowls project at his college and one of the people who attended my class yesterday had been to one in Anchorage.
At our Empty Bowls we had a lady drive down from Spokane to Moscow (1 & 1/2 hrs each way) to participate because there wasn't an Empty Bowls event in Spokane at that time and she had been going to them where she had lived previously.