Skateistan is a non-profit organization that encourages Afghan girls, who are banned from cycling, to get an education through skating. Check out the photo series showing Afghan girls on their skates.
Australian skater Oliver Percovich founded the non-profit organization in 2007 Skateistan, which encourages young people (mainly Afghan girls) to study through sports.
The organization, which has been increasingly successful and globally recognized since its foundation, also impressed the British photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson, who decided to capture the Afghan skaters in the photographic lens. In 2012, she visited the program in Kabul, and she decided to visit mainly after learning that most of the program participants are female. Since Afghan women face many prohibitions, including riding a bicycle, thanks to Skateistan, skateboarding has become the most popular female sport in Afghanistan, as it offers girls a greater sense of freedom in addition to physical activity.
Check out the moving photo series Skate Girls of Kabul in the gallery.
Afghan girls on their skates
Afghan girls on their skates
Afghan girls on their skates
Afghan girls on their skates
Afghan girls on their skates
Afghan girls on their skates
Afghan girls on their skates
Afghan girls on their skates
Afghan girls on their skates
Afghan girls on their skates
Afghan girls on their skates
Afghan girls on their skates
Afghan girls on their skates
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