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Opening of skatepark in Afghanistan brings together children from all social classes

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LA Skateboarding Examiner

An Afghan girl looks on during the opening of a skateboarding park in Kabul, on December 29, 2009.
(Photo: Marko Djurica/REUTERS)

Skateistan has reached another milestone with the opening of Afghanistan's first skateboarding park and school in Kabul on Tuesday, according to a recent Reuters’ editorial.

This is hardly the first time the organization has been featured on the media. Since its inception in 2008, Skateistan has been featured in over 80 news outlets in more than 10 different countries.


An Afghan policeman searches a boy
at the skateboarding park in Kabul.
(Photo: Marko Djurica/REUTERS)

This time, the news agency report focus on how skateboarding has proved to be a really successful way to reach out to marginalized children, above all girls.

Accompanying the piece, pictures of fully armed security guards and policemen searching children at the park entrance make the story rather poignant and, once again, proves that skateboarding is a powerful – and peaceful – way of uniting and engaging the youth of any gender, social class or cultural background.

Check the article out here.

 

 
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Like other fellow Brazilian skaters living in SoCal these days, before coming to US, Luiz paid his dues in his home country. After publishing his own fanzine, he got hired by local Yeah! magazine as a photographer and writer. A year later, he got picked up by Skatin' and soon became its award...

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