Old Friends, New Horizons
My name is Andy Chaggar and I’m the Executive Director of a relatively new charity called European Disaster Volunteers (EDV). EDV is a volunteer driven, registered charity that aids disaster affected communities wor... Read More
Tool Bus Arrives in Haiti!
The journey of the bus began with an idea from Sean "Jinx" Pace of Asheville, NC. Jinx is an artist and works with BioDiesel and is generally a really cool, interesting guy. The plan was to have a tool drive, pac... Read More
Domes For Haitian Orphanages
BWB is proud to have contributed $800 toward the building of Domes for Orphans in Haiti as a part of BWB's Grant Program. Domes for Haiti recently returned from two and a half months in Haiti after successfully com... Read More
Where Burning Man and Pisco Meet
To start, I’d introduce myself as a long-time Burner with a mere 3 days with Pisco Sin Fronteras (PSF), so this is coming from a curmudgeonly old it-was-better-last-year Burner who is a wide-eyed gobsmacked Pisco vi... Read More
Pisco Biodiesel Team Delivers
It is great to work with Kevin and Will. Kevin is from Ireland and Will is from England. I am learning more English and representing California while here. Yesterday we worked all day to perform a titration test on th... Read More
Gaian Path Reconnects with the Burning Community in Peru
After experiencing the 8.8 Chilean Earthquake from the other side of the Andes, we felt called to be of service; however, we learned that the road across the border was closed, and as the days passed that volunteers w... Read More
All Hands on Deck in the Lower Ninth Ward
Hi. I'm Summer. I live in the Holy Cross now, in New Orleans. The Holy Cross is the sliver-by-the-river area of the Lower 9th Ward which didn’t get crushed by a tsunami shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit landfall. ... Read More
LOWERNINE.ORG: yall come down now, y’hear?
ADOPT-A-DIRTBAG: Why not send a DPW / Gate / Burning Dude desert-rat hooligan (or yourself) to New Orleans to help rebuild with Lowernine.org? Hurricane Katrina still haunts New Orleans, and she likely always will. S... Read More
Richard Scott is at it again...
When Ike slammed into the Texas Gulf Coast, FEMA called BWB's Richard Scott to ask if he could help. While helping clean up after Katrina, Richard had secured a heavy equipment donation and after nine months of hard w... Read More
Tres veces a Pisco
This trip marks my third return to this place, which is becoming more familiar than home. Each time I revisit Pisco I am greeted with the familiar energy I remembered, but easily see new circumstances facing the organ... Read More
Sustainable Future for Fisherman
Some weeks ago Burners started working with a group of fishermen in Pisco on a redevelopment project with a difference. A group of local free divers who fish for shellfish, octopus and saltwater fish asked us to hel... Read More
BWB completes first school!
Burners without Borders (BWB) is thrilled to announce the completion of and the return of students to the IEP Abraham Valdelomar school. The school, a small primary school in San Andres, was completely destroyed in th... Read More
