{"id":18839,"date":"2010-10-18T09:32:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T16:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18839"},"modified":"2010-10-18T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T17:02:04","slug":"skateistan-peace-through-superior-skating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18839","title":{"rendered":"Skateistan: Peace Through Superior Skating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/329658_q75.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/329658_q75.jpg','popup','width=450,height=338,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/329658_q75-tm.jpg\" height=\"322\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"329658 Q75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we first mentioned <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateistan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skateistan<\/a><\/strong> on our website back in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=936\" target=\"_blank\">June of 2008<\/a><\/strong> it was just three Australian skateboarders who wanted to help improve he lives of Afghanistan&#8217;s children by teaching them to skateboard in an empty Kabul fountain. Since then Skateistan has grown to become an international organization (NGO) with a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateistan.org\/content\/skate-park\" target=\"_blank\">large indoor skateboard park in Kabu<\/a><\/strong>l, an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateistanthemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">award winning documentary film<\/a><\/strong>, and a school with nearly 300 Afghan kids (boys and girls) enrolled.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/58246\/isaf-troop-donates-skateboards-skateistan-then-does-ollie\">Dvidshub.com<\/a><\/strong> checked in with Skateistan recently to cover a skateboard donation by members of the International Security Assistance Force and delivered a story of hope through skateboarding from one of the roughest cities in the world.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFrom the very start, kids from many different ethnic and social backgrounds were being brought together through skateboarding, and Oliver had the idea to create a school where education was offered alongside skateboard lessons, with the hope that trust-building and self-confidence would be the result,\u201d Percovich said. . . \u201cIt was the motivation from the kids that got Oliver thinking about doing something on a larger scale with skateboarding, through using the activity to bring kids from all different backgrounds together and provide interactive education that would build a mini-community for youth in Kabul,\u201d Bader said. \u201cThose initial skate sessions were the foundations for Skateistan.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=skateistan\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more coverage on Boardistan<\/a><\/strong> or the link below for the rest of the Story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/58246\/isaf-troop-donates-skateboards-skateistan-then-does-ollie\" target=\"_blank\">Dvidshub.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first mentioned Skateistan on our website back in June of 2008 it was just three Australian skateboarders who wanted to help improve he lives of Afghanistan&#8217;s children by teaching them to skateboard in an empty Kabul fountain. Since then Skateistan has grown to become an international organization (NGO) with a large indoor skateboard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18850,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839\/revisions\/18850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}