Whole Foods Market – Houston will host a Community Giving Day Wednesday, April 9 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. to raise money for the Houston Food Bank’s Empty Bowls program

Whole Foods Market will donate 5 percent of the day’s sales from all five Houston-area locations to the Houston Food Bank. Empty Bowls brings together local artists and craftspeople to help fight hunger across the Houston area.

Between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9, Empty Bowls committee members and local artists will demonstrate their crafts at the stores and sell teicktes to the 4th annual Empty Bowls Houston event to be held Saturday, May 17.

The five Houston-area Whole Foods Market locations are:

• 2955 Kirby Drive, Houston
• 4004 Bellaire Boulevard, Houston
• 6401 Woodway Drive, Houston
• 11145 Westheimer Road, Houston
• 15900 Southwest Freeway, Sugar Land

To learn more about the Empty Bowl effort, visit www.emptybowlshouston.org.