Help Build Belle Ame Campus
WHAT
We are building a bathroom facility with 6 toilets and 6 showers to allow your family and the entire Belle Ame community to participate in campus programs such as family retreats, youth apprenticeships, and much more.
WHO
Belle Ame Center has the amazing opportunity to partner with Open Source Ecology, who will contribute design and construction expertise. When we have raised $30,000 for the materials, Open Source Ecology will lead a multi-day "swarm build" where we as Belle Ame members will construct this facility under expert direction. Learn more about Open Source Ecology below.
WHY
Bathrooms are the single biggest impediment to bringing more people on campus for programs. We have more sleeping accommodations than our bathrooms and septic system can handle. We are beginning to expand to opening camp sites and other rustic accommodations as well, which will require sanitary facilities. The purpose is to bring more of you, families, mothers, young adults, youth, and children to participate in artful living experiences with other Belle Ame community members.
HOW
Raising $30,000 to bring power to the site and construct the restrooms may seem difficult. But if 500 people donated $60, we'd be there!
Additionally, once the funds are raised, Belle Ame members ages 14 and older will have the opportunity to register for the "swarm build" experience - a method that our collaborators at Open Source Ecology are famous for. This intense micro-apprenticeship will be a multi-day Belle Ame experience building the facilities and enjoying artful living together.
Open Source Ecology (OSE)
Learn more about our project partner
See an example of a building built with OSE's innovative "swarm build" method.