Fruitful Seniors
I get the privilege of working with residents at nursing homes one day a week. I have been doing this for over a year, assisting an optometrist, doing eye exams for residents that are immobile. When I went to San ... Read More
Slacklining in Haiti-People Inspiring People
Burners Without Borders is proud to have provided a grant for this incredible project through the 2012 Grants Program. I love slacklining, and though I haven't been a dedicated practicer everyday and am not one of ... Read More
Chilasco's "Bottle School" Keeps on Building Thanks to BWB!!
In 2010, BWB made a generous donation to Hug It Forward's "bottle school" project in Chilasco, a small village in Alta Verapaz, one of the poorest states in Guatemala. Thanks to your support, we were able to comp... Read More
Planting seeds for the community's future
The propagation house has been a huge success! Here are some pictures of it as it stands today: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inspeyere/sets/72157623131170200/ We received 600 dollars from BWB, of which 500 was spen... Read More
Locust-Motive-A Handcar created by Teens
Burners Without Borders is proud to have supported Sonoma County Youth with a $500 grant award toward this successful project. Locust-Motive was a collaborative art project that included two guest designers/enginee... Read More
Caregiver Support Group Thrives!
BWB is proud to have provided a $200 grant in support of this program. Saturday morning: I wake up late, like usual, 11:00 o’clock-ish, having been up until 3:30am, again as usual. My day starts with my morning ... Read More
Fire and Swine-100% Kid-centric Burn
This past March at FreedomHill, the Sudbury model school where I work in the DC area, some of the kids were asking me about Burning Man. What is it? Where is it? Can kids go? What do you do there? I attempted to answe... Read More
Above and Beyond Canada - BWB Stimulus Partner
Nearly one month since our campaign launch in tofino on vancouver island, we have - at the very least – invested ourselves in the following: flown over the georgia strait - ben becoming the first paraglider to do s... Read More
Nsumbi Village Project-Malawi
I traveled from Botswana to Malawi to attend the 9th International Permaculture Convergence & Conference during November 2009. Malawi is a tiny country encompassing the southernmost portion of the Great Rift Val... Read More
Motomoto Successes
Ismail and Isaya have moved off the streets! They seem really happy about it. I'm happy not because of the place - but because they have really chosen to be off the street. Which ideally means they will be changing t... Read More
Evolution Takes Too Long-Embrace Mutaytion!
The BWB BioDiesel project in Pisco, Peru is rockin’ it hard as summer arrives to our desert home here by the sea. But suntans and ceviche aren’t the only good things currently on our radar! The biggest news is... Read More
Motomoto Performs at National Festival in Lamu
Early Friday morning we all met to take the bus to Lamu. All of us except Matano the young boy that was going to meet his mother. We spent the next 20 minutes before getting on the bus searching for him. We heard he w... Read More
