{"id":18931,"date":"2017-09-20T11:50:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chill.org\/?p=18931"},"modified":"2023-09-18T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T15:54:49","slug":"skate-girls-of-kabul-inspire-skateboarding-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chill.org\/news\/skate-girls-of-kabul-inspire-skateboarding-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Skate Girls of Kabul Inspire Skateboarding in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Award-winning British photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson travelled to Afghanistan in the summer of 2013 and the summer of 2014 to document young girls participating in a unique program called Skateistan \u2014 an international NGO founded in 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan, to provide girls with a place to skate safely and a route into education.<\/p>\n

Fulford-Dobson visited Skateistan for a total of six weeks and her engaging photographs from her time there deftly undermine cultural, religious, and gender stereotypes. Collected in a book called\u00a0Skate Girls of Kabul<\/em>\u00a0and now exhibited in the Aga Khan Park, these photographs present an uncomplicated celebration of childhood and girl power.<\/p>\n

Alongside the exhibit, the Chill Foundation held a pop-up skate park on Sept. 16 at the Aga Khan Park where over 40 kids learned to skateboard for free. You can read more about the exhibit and Chill’s pop-up skate park\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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