Nashua North takes on fundraiser to help fill empty bowls

Members of Nashua High School North’s Art Honor Society are stepping it up to help combat hunger in Nashua. North participates in Empty Bowls, an effort that reaches across the United States to lend a hand to those in need of food. It has been a fundraiser for the Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter for more than 15 years. This year, junior Priyanka Satpute, president of the Art Honor Society, is in charge of organizing the fundraiser at North. North and South could potentially make about $10,000 for the Nashua Soup Kitchen if they can make 700 bowls before the Empty Bowls event on Wednesday. The process of making the bowls involves clay coils wrapped around ready-made bowls. The clay is then smoothed out and designs can be added. It takes about an hour to make one bowl. To better the chances of reaching 700 bowls, Satpute has extended the bowl-making opportunity to all students. “This year, I decided to make Empty Bowls a schoolwide effort not only to increase our productivity, but also to give more students an opportunity to become a part of the movement,” she said.