Burners Without Borders

As many of you know, BWB volunteers answered the call to action in responding to the devastating earthquake that struck Peru on August 15th, 2007. At the close of our operations we welcomed over 350 volunteers and gifted over 54,000 volunteer hours. Yet the assisted formation of Pisco Sin Fronteras is beginning to prove the most substantial impact we've made so far. PSF is now a fully functioning Peruvian NGO, but the support of this community is as important as ever. Find out how you can get involved today!!

• 2009-03-30 15:20 to 2011-03-30 15:20.

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Volunteers have been hard at work in Pisco, Peru fine-tuning the Mutaytor, BWB's new biodiesel conversion system. We are turning waste veggie oil into schools and homes by donating the profits to Pisco Sin Fronteras, a Peruvian organization that has continued our work reconstructing earthquake ravaged Pisco, Peru.

• 2009-12-17 00:00 to 2010-12-30 00:00.

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Detroit BWB has several projects in the works and you are invited to get involved.

• 2010-01-28 00:00 to 2010-11-01 00:00.

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BWB's Prentiss Darden has been employing innovative, holistic solutions to challenging issues related to food and the environment in Africa for the past 2 years. She now turns her attention to helping vulnerable youth in Botswana.

• 2010-03-06 16:40 to 2010-11-01 16:40.

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It is natural that we want to do everything we can to help in this massive clean up that will likely go on for years. As we learned from the small Bay Area spill clean up, it isn't enough to have a desire to volunteer. There are safety considerations and training you need to have before you will be allowed on the beaches. Learn how you can get trained and be safe.

• 2010-05-03 16:18 to 2010-10-04 16:20.

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BWB has been working to support relief efforts on the ground in Haiti since January. Now, that the emergency phase is over, we are engaging in projects that make a real difference.

• 2010-06-26 07:53 to 2011-07-26 07:55.

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When BWB volunteers returned to Burning Man post Katrina, we had gifted over $1 million dollars of debris removal and reconstruction work to the Gulf Coast. We wanted to bring the valuable lessons we learned back to the playa and so began BWB's first ever lumber recycling program. Since that time, we have repurposed over 40 truck loads of lumber and we are doing it again this year.

• 2010-09-05 09:00 to 2010-09-08 12:00.

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In October 2010, a new group of visitors will arrive on Sierra Leone’s John Obey Beach, 20 miles south of the capital, Freetown, and begin to build a new life alongside the local fishing community. Tribewanted Sierra Leone has formed a partnership with the government, landowners and the local John Obey community in Sierra Leone to create an eco-village community over the coming years to support sustainable development in the area. Read below how you can get involved in this exciting project.

• 2010-10-01 00:00 to 2012-12-30 00:00.

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