Recycled Metal "Word Bowls"

Express your sentiments in your home decor, or give your friends and family the bowl that best suits their loves and personality. These 11" diameter bowls are individually created. Just about everyone can benefit from another bowl around the house, be it for decoration or a place to stash receipts, mail, etc.

Express your sentiments in your home decor, or give your friends and family the bowl that best suits their loves and personality. Choose from "MEOW", "WOOF", "LOVE", "PEACE" and "OM SYMBOL".

These 11" diameter bowls are individually created in India, in a village near Moradabad. Noah's Ark International, a non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1986, provides help to about 100 artisan groups, involving more than 600 people.

Their objectives include informing artisans about fair and safe working conditions and helping them achieve improvements through grants; helping to educate artisans' children, ensuring that all workers are given a suitable price or wages for their work, which may be 10-15% above the minimum wages of the state; ensuring that women are paid equally to men and that their dignity is honored; and discouraging child labor by not buying goods from artisans where child labor is seen.

The metal bowls below are crafted at the workshop of this father of 4 children who has become successful enough in his work to employ 12 men. He lives next to his workshop, and Noah's Ark International sends a teacher to his home so it becomes a local classroom.