#skate

🇯🇴 Jordan · 7Hills Skatepark

Jordan's first skatepark has become downtown Amman's melting pot, where Syrian, Iraqi, and Yemeni refugee kids skate side-by-side with local Jordanians.

🇨🇴 Colombia · Instituto Distrital de Recreación y Deporte (IDRD)

Every Sunday and public holiday, Bogotá shuts down more than 138 kilometers of major roads to cars, turning them over to roughly 1.5 million cyclists, runners, walkers and skaters.

🇨🇺 Cuba · Cuba Skate

What began with 30 skaters and a handful of boards in Havana has grown into a nationwide youth movement reaching every province of Cuba.

🇬🇷 Greece · Free Movement Skateboarding

In Athens, a skate charity gives displaced children from dozens of countries a shared board and a rare say over their own bodies and choices.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Indigo Youth Movement

In South Africa's Valley of a Thousand Hills, a rural skate camp has turned empty afternoons into jobs, mentorship, and a way out for Zulu kids.

🌍 Global · Make Life Skate Life

This nonprofit crew of skaters, architects, and builders has poured Iraq's, Myanmar's, and Bolivia's first public skateparks, then trained locals to build the next ones themselves.

🌍 Global · skate-aid e.V.

A German nonprofit has poured concrete for kids on four continents, turning donated skateparks into classrooms for resilience and self-determination.

🇵🇸 Palestine · SkatePal

Volunteers and local skaters have hand-built concrete skateparks across the West Bank, turning empty lots into some of Palestine's only public play spaces.

🌍 Global · Skateistan

A Berlin-headquartered NGO turns skateboarding into a classroom, reaching thousands of at-risk children every week from Kabul to Phnom Penh.