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Burners Without Borders vs Hurricane Katrina Disaster

submitted by eric3579

1 decade 3 years 3 months ago

Following the 2005 Burning Man event, several participants headed south into the Hurricane Katrina disaster area to help people rebuild their devastated communities. As the volunteer numbers grew, they focused their initial efforts on rebuilding a destroyed Vietnamese temple in Biloxi, Mississippi. After several months, that job done, they moved to another needy Mississippi community, Pearlington, to continue to work hard -- gifting their time -- to help those in need. Over the course of eight months, BWB volunteers gifted over $1 million dollars worth of reconstruction and debris removal to the residents of Mississippi.

Since that time, BWB has emerged as a community led, grassroots group that addresses gaping needs where existing cultural and societal systems are failing.
- http://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/

12 Comments

Cuz I have mad love for burning man.

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, September 19th, 2011 1:38pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter eric3579.

Ten Principals of Burning Man

*doublepromote

Double-Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, September 19th, 2011 1:53pm PDT - doublepromote requested by Issykitty.

criticalthudsays...

Fuck yeah.
empathy is the new cool

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Lann.

dystopianfuturetoday

Very cool.

Gotta give it to them. I'm regretting more and more the fact I couldn't go to burning man for the first time ever this year.

dag

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Really good stuff. I'm going to make it to Burning Man eventually.

>> ^dag:

Really good stuff. I'm going to make it to Burning Man eventually.

Any goal containing the word "eventually" is almost certainly guaranteed to remain incomplete.

I plan to include this nugget in the book I will eventually publish.

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