Thursday, 4 February 2010

Kitintale skate park, Uganda

The first and only skatepark in Eastern Africa, constructed by the local kids in a suburb of Kampala





Photos by Yann Gross

13 comments:

Sidney said...

Skateboard on every place in this world, good lucky to Uganda's guys, and don't give up the fight!!!!

CONSCIOUSNESS said...

How cool! The kinfolk doing it for themselves...Continued respect!

C!!

Anonymous said...

Awesome! I totally want to hang out with these guys. Especially the dude in the Bob the Bonger shirt. ha

Mere said...

Their smiles say it all. beautiful.

That London girl said...

ahh i love these photos, this whole post made me smile :)

Honkbarn said...

Amazing video! It looks like they're having so much fun even though they have so little.

Isaac said...

My mom went to uganda and said that all the kids would call her "mzungoo" meaning white person. also, she went in side of that colloseum at 1:03

Anonymous said...

Fantastico a força de querer ...

Skate 4 ever

From Portugal

Ricardo D.

Anonymous said...

great that a powerful and rebellion sportart get a place in uganda. Great. Have fun and my respect to the crew in uganda

james said...

Hello... Any chance I could have a little chat with you about this project?

you can mail me at: info@ableye.com

Thanks,
James.

kiboko84 said...

thanx for this...i was talking about taking skateboarding back toe EA for a while and people thought me mad...you have given me proof....watch this space

Luis Almeida - Portugal said...

Great, There is a lots of Skateparks, that we don't know! Go Uganda Skaters!!!

SKATE IS NOT A CRIME

slippery.steve said...

Awesome! Big respect to the organisers! Bringing the comunity together like this to provide a ray of hope and something for the kids. I read about this or a very similar project a couple of months ago in Sidewalk skate mag.

If I get this job im after im definatly goin to make a decent regular donation. Look at how theyre living, u dont see them moaning about having a PS3, Xbox blah blah blah. Very humbling.
The next time Im gonna moan about not been able to skate somewhere I'l think of these guys!

Keep up the good work guys, Im stoked for ya.
Always The Ride!