Boarders Without Boarders

I am so stoked to help work on such an amazing project! My friend Tamo Campos who is a great snowboarder has this amazing organization Boarders Without Borders that is "dedicated to spreading interest in humanitarian work within the snowboarding community." Him and some other people are going down to Chile all summer long to go do volunteer work as well as snowboard ( Read Snowboard Canada Article below). We all snowboard because it's our passion and this is an amazing project to be working on because it gives back to the snowboarding community and what snowboarding has done for us. Without snowboarding we all wouldn't know what to do with our lives so we will pursue our dream as long as possible. Hopefully I can save up some money and join Tamo and the rest of crew down in Chile for a couple weeks in August cause this would be an experience of a lifetime! But in the meantime it's time to put my knowledge, skills and what I have learnt through marketing so far to help  market Boarders Without Boarders further to the best of my ability.





"Boarders Across Borders is an organization dedicated to spreading interest in humanitarian work within the snowboarding community.  Our goal is to encourage snowboarders to channel the positive energy inherent to our sport in ways that genuinely help the people in our world who face adverse living conditions.
Through our partnerships, our organization is actively involved in supporting overseas aid, and spreading local awareness of global poverty issues and environmental sustainability. 
 As avid snowboarders, we recognize how fortunate we are to lead the lifestyles that we do.  We encourage anyone who wants to spread the stoke of our sport into positive change to get involved!" www.boardersacrossborders.weebly.com

(Snowboard Canada Article) Currently, BWB is working on two documentary shred flicks that will showcase their humanitarian and environmental efforts as well as the riding of Tamo Campos, Nic Heringa, Dave MacKinnon, Curtis Woodman, and Eliel Hindert.  One of the movies shows how the crew converted an old diesel truck to run on veggie oil, built splitboards, and scored pow without burning fossil fuels or riding chairlifts.  The other will be filmed this summer in South America, where BWB is involved in two humanitarian projects.  First, the crew will build floating garden rafts in Peru.  These rafts will provide food and jobs for the impoverished community of Iquitos.  From Peru, BWB’s riders will head to Chile to film the shred segments of the movie, and to volunteer for an organization that provides housing in to communities in Chile.

If you’re into shredding, volunteering, splitboards, trucks, and travelling, make sure to pay attention to Boarders Without Borders.  We should be seeing some very cool things from them very soon- in the meantime check out their teaser for their summer project, and their website (www.boarderswithoutborders.net) to see what they’re up to, support their projects, get involved, and get some ideas about how you can be a snowboarder who makes a difference. - David MacKinnon