commit to completing the project by December 31, 2012.

Last year, ten programs were funded through Burners Without Borders grants, including a health education program in Peru, a school in Guatemala and a living library in Russia. Although BWB has done a large amount of international based work, grant recipients don’t have to cross the Atlantic to make the cut. Heads Up Productions, a theater company in Akron, Ohio; were awarded $600 last year to assist in their program that helps youth battle discrimination by raising awareness.

Heads Up founder, Benjamin Rexroad, and his partner, purchased their first Burning Man tickets in the 2010 holiday sale which lead to their BWB grant. Benjamin describes the natural progression, “I got subscribed to Jack Rabbit Speaks and read it pretty religiously andbuying seven-seater family cars, better mortgage rates for families with multiple kids, saved places for childcare and work-leave for grandparents who take care of their grandchildren.

The prime minister’s proposals still need parliamentary approval, but as Orban's party has a two-thirds majority in Parliament, their passage is likely. For decades, Germany and Hungary have had among the lowest birth rates in the world, both ranking in the bottom 10 percent of countries worldwide.

A series of post-World War II un-generations has left both countries with severe labor shortages.

Those shortages, and an excess of jobs to fill, were factors in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to open up the country to more than a million mostly-Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan refugees.

Orban chose a different path, building walls with razor wire in border