Sunday, April 6, 2008<\/p>\n
(04-06) 04:00 PDT Pisco, Peru — Carmen Mauk stands in flip-flops atop a pile of broken bricks as she surveys a city devastated by a magnitude 8.0 earthquake.<\/p>\n
“People are being bled of their resources,” the San Francisco resident said. “They’re still waiting for their lots to be cleared – they won’t get government help until then.”<\/p>\n
Mauk is the director of Burners Without Borders, a San Francisco nonprofit organization that is helping Peruvians clear rubble so they can start rebuilding.<\/p>\n
Burners Without Borders grew out of an ad hoc relief effort in 2005, after hundreds of volunteers from the annual Burning Man art festival – who call themselves Burners – helped Biloxi, Miss., residents after Hurricane Katrina. Since then, Burners have participated in more than a dozen relief programs, including a coat drive for homeless people in London, debris cleanup after Southern California wildfires, a reconstruction effort in tsunami-ravaged Thailand and emergency flood work in Nevada. For the Pisco project, the group has raised more than $54,000 – mostly over the Internet from Burning Man participants.<\/p>\n
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