the 100.
The is the fourth year that the members of the Ultimate Black Belt Test and
The 100., along with their students, families, and friends, will raise money for –
and then go build and/or restore –a home for someone in need. We engage
in this project with housing activist Pam Dorr (meet Pam Dorr by clicking on
the film you see here:
The 100., along with their students, families, and friends, will raise money for –
and then go build and/or restore –a home for someone in need. We engage
in this project with housing activist Pam Dorr (meet Pam Dorr by clicking on
the film you see here:
TheGreensboro
Alabama
Project 2008
Alabama
Project 2008
Here are the reasons we do
this project –and why we do it
in Greensboro, Alabama:
this project –and why we do it
in Greensboro, Alabama:
The Greensboro area is in the “Black Belt” of the South –one of the poorest regions in the United States. Many
people live their without indoor plumbing and/or running water. We go to Alabama because we can make a
difference there –and the people need help.
Tom Callos is the designer and team coach for the Ultimate Black Belt Test (UBBT) and the martial arts
association known as The 100. In 2001, he came across an article about the work of architect Samuel Mockbee.
Mockbee was teaching young architectural students how to do their craft by taking them into rural Alabama (in
the Greensboro area) and building homes, mostly of found objects, for the poor. Mockbee’s work transcended
architecture –and his students didn’t just learn how to design and build, their education was about life –about
simplicity, activism, sustainable living, empathy, compassion, and everything else that built soulful,
conscientious, proactive human beings.
For Tom Callos, Samuel Mockbee represented the kind of Master Teacher, teaching with the scope and
consciousness, that he aspired to be. In honor of Mockbee’s life (he died from Leukemia in 2001), his work, and
the quality of his thinking and action, Tom organized the opportunity for the members of the UBBT to collaborate
with Mockbee’s program (The Rural Studio) and to go to Alabama to not only witness Mockbee’s work firsthand,
but to actually work with the architects and activists carrying on Mockbee’s legacy.
Read More Here
people live their without indoor plumbing and/or running water. We go to Alabama because we can make a
difference there –and the people need help.
Tom Callos is the designer and team coach for the Ultimate Black Belt Test (UBBT) and the martial arts
association known as The 100. In 2001, he came across an article about the work of architect Samuel Mockbee.
Mockbee was teaching young architectural students how to do their craft by taking them into rural Alabama (in
the Greensboro area) and building homes, mostly of found objects, for the poor. Mockbee’s work transcended
architecture –and his students didn’t just learn how to design and build, their education was about life –about
simplicity, activism, sustainable living, empathy, compassion, and everything else that built soulful,
conscientious, proactive human beings.
For Tom Callos, Samuel Mockbee represented the kind of Master Teacher, teaching with the scope and
consciousness, that he aspired to be. In honor of Mockbee’s life (he died from Leukemia in 2001), his work, and
the quality of his thinking and action, Tom organized the opportunity for the members of the UBBT to collaborate
with Mockbee’s program (The Rural Studio) and to go to Alabama to not only witness Mockbee’s work firsthand,
but to actually work with the architects and activists carrying on Mockbee’s legacy.
Read More Here
This films was made
by UBBT Alumni and
Academy Award
Winner Nancy
Walzog --
by UBBT Alumni and
Academy Award
Winner Nancy
Walzog --
What We Have to Do Before
We Travel to Alabama (and
you’re invited to help –and
join us too!)
We Travel to Alabama (and
you’re invited to help –and
join us too!)
From this (upper photo) to THIS (lower
photo. One of our re-build projects.
photo. One of our re-build projects.
We (the members of the UBBT, The 100, and our
friends) need to raise some money for materials
for our build. There are about 100 martial arts
schools involved in our groups, so the amount we
need comes to about $800 per school (give or
take).
We have about two solid months to raise the
funds, which brings the amount to $400 a month,
twice, per school –which is $100 a week for 8
weeks. If a martial arts school has 80 students,
each student would need to contribute just $5 a
month –for two months in a row. That’s $1.25 a
week, for 8 weeks, per student.
So…we need you, interested person, to help us
get a BUNCH of people contributing a LITTLE BIT
OF CASH (like a cup-of-coffee cash) to help us do
something remarkable. All donations are tax
deductible.
Read More
friends) need to raise some money for materials
for our build. There are about 100 martial arts
schools involved in our groups, so the amount we
need comes to about $800 per school (give or
take).
We have about two solid months to raise the
funds, which brings the amount to $400 a month,
twice, per school –which is $100 a week for 8
weeks. If a martial arts school has 80 students,
each student would need to contribute just $5 a
month –for two months in a row. That’s $1.25 a
week, for 8 weeks, per student.
So…we need you, interested person, to help us
get a BUNCH of people contributing a LITTLE BIT
OF CASH (like a cup-of-coffee cash) to help us do
something remarkable. All donations are tax
deductible.
Read More
What You Get for
Your Involvement
Your Involvement
Well, first off, you get to be a part of this historic martial arts
enterprise. This as an all-new kind of activism and training in the
martial arts community –and because of this work we are inspiring
martial arts people all over the world to take a more proactive
approach in their communities.
Second, you can actually come and join us, if you have the time
and interest. We are hosted by a church in Greensboro –and
there we sleep on the gym floor, eat in their big commercial
kitchen, and we train / hang out together when we’re not working.
It’s fun, really.
And finally, besides reaching out and helping someone, with little
or no thought of return, you get to help your martial arts teacher
learn about his or her power-to-make-a-difference from the
leading activist (and his friends) in the martial arts world. That’s a
good thing.
We’ll keep you informed of our progress through e-mails and here
on our website. We hope that you see the value in this project, in
how a lot of people doing a little bit of work can become something
enormously powerful and positive.
enterprise. This as an all-new kind of activism and training in the
martial arts community –and because of this work we are inspiring
martial arts people all over the world to take a more proactive
approach in their communities.
Second, you can actually come and join us, if you have the time
and interest. We are hosted by a church in Greensboro –and
there we sleep on the gym floor, eat in their big commercial
kitchen, and we train / hang out together when we’re not working.
It’s fun, really.
And finally, besides reaching out and helping someone, with little
or no thought of return, you get to help your martial arts teacher
learn about his or her power-to-make-a-difference from the
leading activist (and his friends) in the martial arts world. That’s a
good thing.
We’ll keep you informed of our progress through e-mails and here
on our website. We hope that you see the value in this project, in
how a lot of people doing a little bit of work can become something
enormously powerful and positive.
Contact Project
Manager Tom Callos
at 530-903-0286
or by e-mail at
tomcallos@gmail.com
Manager Tom Callos
at 530-903-0286
or by e-mail at
tomcallos@gmail.com