Gabriel Clark, from Britain’s northwestern county of Cumbria, is a self-taught “woodworking whizz” who makes wooden bowls in his home workshop to raise money to help children around the world, the UK’s public broadcaster BBC has reported.
‘Bowl for Ukraine’
Last year, the teenage carpenter became a viral sensation when his "Bowl for Ukraine," a wooden utensil etched with the blue and yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag, raised more than GBP 250,000 (EUR 285,000) for Ukrainian children, according to Poland’s niezalezna.pl website.
The money from Gabriel’s first fundraiser has benefited children from war-torn Ukraine in a school in Warsaw, the BBC reported.
The school supports over 450 children from Ukraine aged between six and 17 to study the Ukrainian curriculum in their native language, as well as providing Polish-language lessons, according to niezalezna.pl.
'The Hope Bowl'
This year, the British “woodworking whizz” is raising money for children in more faraway places, including East Africa, in cooperation with the charity Save the Children, UK broadcaster Sky News reported.
For this purpose, Gabriel has created another bowl, called “The Hope Bowl,” and says he was inspired after visiting the Warsaw school to meet some of the Ukrainian youngsters who benefitted from his fundraising, according to the BBC.
“The Hope Bowl” took him 10 hours to make and includes three types of wood—ash, sapele and zebrano—which represent three of the main areas of Save the Children's work around the world: education, food and medicine, Sky News reported.
Gabriel has already raised more than GBP 6,000 (EUR 6,830), according to Sky News.
A draw where people can enter to win “The Hope Bowl” closes on April 14, the BBC reported.
The teenager told Sky News: "I feel as though children can sometimes be underappreciated and they need our support because they can't work to earn money to help themselves."
He added: "And the world has so many issues with it so I think if I can do my part to straighten some of them out then I want to try."
Friday is day 408 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Source: niezalezna.pl, Sky News, BBC