Locations

Skateistan Partnerships & Goodpush form the programmatic strategy for Skateistan—rolling hand-in-hand as we grow the social skate sector as a whole. Together with our global community, we are using skateboarding as a tool for good. Skateistan reaches over 10,000 at-risk youth in more than 50 locations worldwide. Over 56% of our participants are girls.
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Project Elimu

Project Elimu is a community-driven non-profit organization offering after-school arts education and a safe space to children living in Kibera, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya

Rookie Slash

Geneva based, Rookie Slash promote a healthy lifestyle thanks to community, sports, and self-development. They also hope to strengthen the social cohesion of the city, by limiting communitarianism and discriminatory practices.

San Skate

San Skate is a project of children aid organization Dominiño and the two foundations SuTrA e.V. (Germany) and Bread & Water (Dominican Republic)

Seven Hills

Supporting the development of inclusive public spaces in Jordan, for youth through skateboarding, crafts & arts.

Siargao Island Skate Project

SISP non profit organization based on Siargao Island in the Philippines aimed at improving the lives of young children and youth through skateboarding.

SimplementeOpinión

SimplementeOpinión's participants include individuals from communities of color, LGBTIQ+ individuals, and individuals experiencing homelessness.

Skate & Beyond

Skate & Beyond is a Ugandan-based nonprofit organization founded in 2023, harnessing the power of skateboarding and creative expression to empower young people.

Skate Heaven

Based in Edegem, Belgium, Skate Heaven is a indoor skating hall which offers skateboarding, inline skate and scooter lessons. Their goal is to provide a safe space and a community for practitioners of all extreme sports together.

Skate PNG

Skate Papua New Guinea aims to empower the youth of PNG through the world of skateboarding.

Skateducate

Skateducate is a non-profit organisation that seeks to create an expansive inclusion in the skateboarding community. They do so through weekly sessions, camps, road-trips and non-skateboarding events that bring people together around the skateboard. Their primary crew and users identify as girls, women and non-binary.

South Africa

Since 2014, Skateistan has worked across South Africa and has a permanent school in Johannesburg, complete with a concrete skatepark, offices and several classrooms. Programs run five days a week in the afternoon for children to attend after they have been to public school.

South Sudan Skateboarding

A non-profit collective bringing skateboarding to the youth in South Sudan through their Skate to Recover program.

Surf Ghana

Based in Accra, Surf Ghana is a collective that uses the practice of extreme sports as a driver for diversity in education, social inclusion, and empowerment of the youth.

Surf Ghana

Based in Accra, Surf Ghana is a collective that uses the practice of extreme sports as a driver for diversity in education, social inclusion, and empowerment of the youth.

Tehran

Skateistan volunteers first started teaching skateboarding in Tehran in March 2023, by April 2024 the project was fully funded . The attendees are all children aged 6-16 - girls and boys - Afghan refugees and Iranian locals learning together.

The Lotus Flower

The Lotus Flower is a women-led, non-governmental organization founded in response to the 2014 ISIS crisis and the subsequent displacement of Yezidi communities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI).

Timor Skate

The focus of Timor Skate is to share this empowerment with the community in Dili, Timor-Leste, by building a skatepark.

U Can Skate

U Can Skate focuses on sharing skateboarding with youth, women and indigenous communities around Mexico. They run a variety of events and programming to introduce more youth into skateboarding, meet ups, lessons, movie premiers, workshops and more.

UCanSkate

UCanSkate is a mexican women-led organization, using skateboarding as a tool for empowering minorities and vulnerable groups, they create activities and provide access to projects that open up opportunities within skateboarding

Verein fur Skateboardkultur

Verein für Skateboardkultur is a non profit organisation in Hamburg, where we try to promote the cultural value that skateboarding has for the city but also add to the culture of skateboarding for skaters in hamburg and also by promoting exchange with other skateboarding and DIY organisations in other places.

Women Relief Aid

Women Relief Aid (WRA) is a fully registered women-led National NGO, non-profit, non-political and non-religious founded to provide support to vulnerable women/girls and children suffering in South Sudan

Supporters & Awards

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