Burners bring fire to school dedication
On Saturday May 17th, Burners Without Borders held a ceremony to mark the opening of the I.E.P Abraham Valdelomar school in San Andreas. After months of hard work of building this school from the ground up, it's no... Read More
Essex: the dirty and rewarding work of building schools
Last Monday was a big day for Burners. For a while now we have been working in Chincha, a town about 40 minutes north of Pisco, in conjunction with a Spanish NGO. They have already funded and built a hostel in a very ... Read More
Michelle Returns to Pearlington
At Burning Man, Flipside, Critical Massive and lots of other places, we build things, tear or burn them down, and then leave without a trace. As a community, a big extended family, we spend a great deal of time and en... Read More
Patrick Brings it Texas Style (and...he's never even been to Burning Man)
The 27th of April was perhaps the longest day of work I have ever experienced. It seemed that the hours at work stretched slowly as the phone never rang; no e-mails to speak of as everyone was pretty much on the ... Read More
Back to the Bayou
Two years after Burners without Borders pulled out of Pearlington MS, we returned to where it all began last week to thank the town of Pearlington for hosting the birthplace of what is now a burgeoning international v... Read More
Piscante House Project
One of the projects I have spent a couple of weeks working on is the Piscante House Project. Its about 15 minutes outside of Pisco, on a hill in a area called "Vista al Mar". It's a really poor area where most of the ... Read More
A Pisco, Peru Snapshot from BWB Volunteer Elizabeth Doughtery
Ok, I admit it. I'm a big cry baby. And since arriving in Pisco, Peru, 5 months after a 7.9 earthquake leveled 80% of the city, I have done more than my fair share of it. While Pisco has always had a reputation for... Read More
Building Infrastructure and Getting 'er Done
It has been 3 months since the first BWB volunteer, Sam Bloch, arrived in Pisco, Peru. Sam began immediately assessing the needs of the people here who were still reeling from the 8.0 earthquake that struck just off t... Read More
