Go Skateboarding day story:
Posted by John Bradford

Kids in arguably one of the most dangerous cities in the world celebrate Go Skateboarding day. The founders of the group Skateistan provide a skate school to urban youth in war-torn Kabul as an effort to give the kids there something to do, because they don’t have any other activities…

“Skateistan is Afghanistan’s (and the world’s) first co-educational skateboarding school. The school engages growing numbers of urban and internally-displaced youth in Afghanistan through skateboarding, and provides them with new opportunities in cross-cultural interaction, education, and personal empowerment programs. The students are selected from all of Afghanistan’s diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. They will develop skills in skateboarding, skateboarding instruction, healthy habits, civic responsibility, information technology, the arts, and languages. The students themselves decide what they want to learn; we connect them with teachers who will enable them to develop the skills that they consider important.

Since Skateistan has been active in Kabul, we’ve seen that Afghan youth of all ethnicities, genders, and socioeconomic backgrounds love to skateboard. Skateistan brings them together, equipping young men and women to lead their communities toward social change and development.” – skateistan.org


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And Here to visit Skateistan.org.

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