These handmade stoneware bowls are available throughout the year at the Riverguild in Perth.
They make meaningful gifts for local organizations, corporate clients
and as holiday offerings to family and friends.
Housewarmings? Perfect.

Bowls ready for firing in the bisque kiln	A typical salt glazed "empty bowl"

Empty Bowls distributes more than $10,000 each year to address
food scarcity among children and youth in the Perth area.
We have never failed to meet this goal
since the project began in 2002.

100% of donations for these bowls goes to programs
administered by these three charitable agencies:

The Perth and District Food Bank
The YAK Youth Centre
Food For Thought
(breakfast programs in Lanark County schools)

Make a donation to Empty Bowls
If you can't make it to Perth but want to help out you can send us a cheque payable to
" Empty Bowls, Perth "
Mail to
Empty Bowls, c/o J. Seaton, RR 7, Perth, Ontario K7H 3C9

Please note: Empty Bowls is not a registered charity and cannot offer tax receipts.
All donations, however, are administered by the three "grantees" described
below and all are registered charities.

Thanks !

EMAIL: info@emptybowls.ca

Recipients 2008

Food For Thought

Food For Thought is a breakfast program serving children in elementary schools throughout Lanark County. It is largely parent run and chronically short of funds despite the alarming trend toward increased child poverty in virtually every region of Canada.

The YAK Youth Centre

Perth is a small town in Eastern Ontario about an hour’s drive from Ottawa. It has its share of affluence but like other Canadian towns and cities poverty is not unknown. A report released in Perth in January 2003 found a shocking level of homelessness and couch-surfing among young people in Lanark County. The YAK Youth Centre is a drop-in facility which closes at 9:30 at night so it can't offer shelter. But it does offer a regular supper program which is a significant help and it is entirely paid for by Empty Bowls donations! The Perth Food Bank Those who work at the Food Bank know all too well that at the end of any given month more and more families - and these are working families for the most part - must choose between rent and food. Over 40% of the nearly 4,000 clients they help each year are children! It's hard to believe and hard to accept, but there it is. Empty Bowls is one of the largest single donors to the Perth Food Bank year after year.

The Perth Food Bank

Those who work at the Food Bank know all too well that at the end of any given month more and more families - and these are working families for the most part - must choose between rent and food. Over 40% of the nearly 4,000 clients they help each year are children! It's hard to believe and hard to accept, but there it is. Empty Bowls is one of the largest single donors to the Perth Food Bank year after year.

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