Three skateboarders from the Australian city of Melbourne have big plans for a cool new skatepark. This isn’t particularly new… except this skatepark is to be built in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, and the locals don’t even have a word for “skateboard” in the most common language of the area, Dari.
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Talent: Sharna Nolan and Oliver Percovich from Skateistan; Wade Trevean, skatepark designer, Convic
i want you to organise such that you have done in afganistan in africa.thank you.
Hello Lynda, you can get more information about the Skateistan folks at http://skateistan.org/
The new pictures from there are great.
How can we get in touch with the two great people who started this off. Believe they are in australia now trying to raise money for the project.
Hello Susan, I understand from their more recent posts they’re all still in Kabul.
You can get more information about the Skateistan folks, and contact details, at http://skateistan.org/