Last Monday the 31st of March, the original Skateistan crew cruised down to the Amani School armed with a new skateboard donated by Black Box. Rising security levels since the Serena Hotel bombing however meant the boys were told they couldn’t skate in the school grounds but could instead roll in the school car park next to Presidents Karzai’s office.
Hameed had injured himself the night before, but he was stoked after Travis presented him and the rest of the boys with their new T-shirts.
The boys jumped straight into it, with Masoud determined to land his first ever and Afghanistan’s first ever ollie. Within no time, children started appearing with a few familiar faces including Naaser from the class of 2007 who took a break from his day job as a beggar to have a ride. There were few more firsts for Afghanistan in the session including the first female skater (name withheld)Â and the first blind man to ride a skateboard.
If this is what we can do in our first week with three boards and a car park, imagine what we can do once we deliver the 30 boards and the 50 pairs of shoes from Black Box and build a skate park!
Congratulations to Travis for a very successful start to Skateistan in Kabul for 2008.
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