Skatepunk

Kabul's skateboarders get their own park
By Andra Jackson, The Age, Australia
October 29, 2009 - 10:40PM

Afghanistan's fledging skateboarders will get their own international standard skateboard park today, thanks to a couple of Australians.

After making do with pot-holed pavements and dried up concrete fountains, Afghanistan's fledging skateboarders will get their own international standard skateboard park today.

It is thanks to the vision of two Australian skateboard enthusiasts, Sharna Nolan, 32, Fitzroy and her partner, Oliver Percovich, 35, from St Andrews who two years ago saw the potential in giving Afghanistan's war disaffected youths a new direction in life through the sport. They set up the project, skateistan, which will build the world's first co-educational skateboarding school, which will also offer classes in literacy, maths and English, open its doors at the skatepark complex.