[T]here’s a skateboarding school in Afghanistan where 40% of its students are female.
In a part of the world where little girls are getting shot at for promoting women’s education, that’s a pretty impressive statistic. In a part of the world where little girls aren’t even allowed to ride a bicycle, that’s a ground-breaking statistic.
Officially, this makes Afghanistan the unlikeliest of title holders for the highest rate of female participation in skateboarding out of any country in the world.
Australian skater Oliver Percovich has permanently relocated to Kabul and dedicated his life with his team to creating Skateistan, a non-profit NGO and full-functioning school where children can not only come to learn in a brand new skatepark facility, but in classrooms where they can choose to explore anything from creative arts to environmental health topics.
Skateistan via Messy Nessy Chic for the full fascinating story.
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As is so often the case with your delightful and interesting “finds,” this is not at all “awful,” but actually very cool. Thanks for a very diverting blog!
Thanks for the generous words.
I consider this to fall under the category of “awesome” which is a close enough relative to “awful” for me to justify its inclusion here.