Skate Kabul

2010 Feb

Skateistan is a co-educational skateboarding school in Kabul which was established in May 2007.

It was founded by Australian skateboarders Oliver Percovich and Sharna Nolan who first traveled to Afghanistan in February 2007. Skateistan programs engage Afghan children through skateboarding and provide them with greater access to education, healthcare and cultural opportunities. Ever since, Skateistan has been Afghanistan’s first skateboarding school dedicated to teaching both male and female students.

Thanks to help from donations adding up to over $650,000 and support from the Afghan Olympic Committee (which has donated the land for the park and is providing water, power and security) the team behind Skateistan is opening up Afghanistan’s first indoor skatepark. Built by IOU Ramps, skatepark opened at the end of October 2009, with hundreds of spectators, international donors, Afghan dignitaries, supporters, employees and skateboarding kids present. Here are some pictures of the 1.900-square-meter indoor arena.

Skateistan has been given the award for best Non Governmental Organization of the year in Monaco by the Peace and Sport Forum. The program changed the lives of many poor children in Kabul by giving them opportunities to teach skateboarding for money, whereas many of them had been begging in the streets. Skateistan is also having a profound impact on young girls in Afghanistan. Skateboarding is the only public sport available to girls.

See more at www.skateistan.org.

Related contents

  • Dummies Tricks-Defining

    Common people describing (some) spots and tricks to riders.

    2008 May

  • Iuter Games 2009 report

    Iuter was born more then six years ago, as a snowboard crew of friends: weekend after weekend the crew was growing as we were riding everywhere in Italy and Europe, making troubles on the way!

    2009 Mar

  • FISE 13th edition

    FISE, the biggest european freestyle world pro contest gives you rendez-vous in 2009 down town Montpellier, over “Les Rives du Lez”, in South of France from 20th to 24th of may

    2009 Mar

  • A horse in the garage

    It’s understood since such a space was created…the garage. The origin of this word is unknown ( for me, at least ): greek, latin, celtic? Science has not been able to prove yet why the more people fill it with stuff, the more there’s space left to fill with other stuff.

    2008 Jan

  • Making History

    Far beyond initial expectations, Make History turned out to be a milestone project. The campaign effectively spawned a new channel of communication, attracting and involving users of all ages and from all walks of life, and engaging them in a shared dialogue within its community.

    2009 Feb

  • Aaaahhh, team sports!

    They are great, because they make them smarter, since they are puppies they learn to interact with other underaged, with whom they can eventually grow up sharing experiences, troubles, boyfriends or girlfriends.

    2008 Mar

  • A sport called Ruzzola

    Does everybody tell you you can’t reach goods results in any sport? Do you feel uncomfortable with any multicoloured hitech sport equipment on? Are you afraid of hurting?

    2008 Mar

  • Racing bulls

    Italians do it better…italians pizza mandolino spaghetti mafia. Italians racing bulls while driving.

    2008 May