Bei strahlendem Sonnenschein fand gestern der erste, der geplanten skate-aid Skateboard-Workshops am Kölnberg in Köln-Meschenich statt.

Here are a few impressions from the Arsal refugee camp in Lebanon. We have been supporting the kids from this project since last year with skateboard stuff and ramps and miniramp designs, working closely with Toby from the Green Helmets, who started the project. We empower kids!

Hello, I'm Max and I spent a few months as a volunteer with the skate-aid project in Windhoek, Namibia.
To give you some context:
- I have never been to Africa
- I do not know anyone in Africa
- I have skated since I was 11 and never got tired of it

I’m a forty-year-old skateboarder and surgeon from Norway who is on sabbatical leave together with my family (wife and two children). On January 5, 2024, we arrived in Namibia for the first time. In our luggage we had 35 kg of skateboard equipment, donations from the Norwegian skateboard community to skate-aid in Windhoek.

This is an inspiring success story written by Kihara, who has been with us for almost 10 years.
It shows the positive outcomes and transformative impact achieved through one of the skate-aid projects, located in Nairobi, Kenya:

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024 - skate-aid review 2023
A review of the past year and an outlook on the coming one...

Lexware skate-aid-night 2023: Burning hearts at the 17th edition of our charity gala. Around 250 invited guests, from not only all over Germany, answered the call to the Skaters Palace in Münster, including many celebrities and well-known "skate-aid friends".

We’re bursting with joy and can finally announce it: skate-aid e. V. in Essen and the “RTL - Wir helfen Kindern e.V.” foundation are joining forces to achieve the goal together: To empower kids!

In the first days of our Uganda trip we had a lot on our agenda: First of all we visited the further extensions of the skate park in Kampala as well as the new library.

24-years-old Joshi from Göppingen/Germany was volunteering for 3 months at the skate-aid skate park project in Windhoek/Namibia. Here he tells his story…