Annual Report 2017 Empowering Children Through Skateboarding and Education
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ANNUAL REPORT 2017 EMPOWERING CHILDREN THROUGH SKATEBOARDING AND EDUCATION. Skateistan is an award-winning international non-profit organization empowering children and youth through skateboarding and education in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. Through our innovative programs; Outreach, Skate and Create, Back-to-School and Youth Leadership, we give children the opportunity to become leaders for a better world. 1 CONTENTS SECTION 1 MESSAGE 4-5 Message from our Executive Director SECTION 2 SKATEISTAN OVERVIEW 6-13 International Advisory Board Progress Update Timeline 2017 SECTION 6 SECTION 3 SIHANOUKVILLE, KABUL, AFGHANISTAN 14-19 CAMBODIA 28-31 Progress Update for 2017 Progress Update for 2017 Key Highlights Key Highlights Facts Facts Success Story Success Story SECTION 4 SECTION 7 MAZAR-E-SHARIF, JOHANNESBURG, AFGHANISTAN 20-23 SOUTH AFRICA 32-35 Progress Update for 2017 Progress Update for 2017 Key Highlights Key Highlights Facts Facts Success Story Success Story SECTION 5 SECTION 8 PHNOM PENH, SKATEISTAN GLOBAL 36-51 CAMBODIA 24-27 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Progress Update for 2017 Entities Key Highlights Media Facts Fundraising Success Story The Year Ahead: Global 2018 Activity Plan 2018 SECTION 9 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW 54-60 Thank You Get Involved 2 3 MESSAGE FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OLIVER PERCOVICH One of the standout memories of Skateistan’s journey for me was back in 2008. We had just finished a skate session at the Mekroyan fountain (in Kabul where Skateistan sessions first ran) and the girls just held hands and started to dance around. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing - it was a eureka moment! The penny dropped, and I realised at that moment that what we had begun couldn’t stop there. It couldn’t just be these little skateboard sessions in the street, or giving Afghan kids some skateboards or skateboard lessons - this had the ability to unite people from very different backgrounds. It gave me concrete proof that skateboarding is a great way of connecting people and bringing them together. I saw that this was a powerful model which needed to be expanded as fast as possible. There are things skateboarders can teach other people about being inclusive and not taking on society’s classifications. I always thought there was something In 2018, the year we celebrate our official there, but at that moment with those girls, it was right That inclusive aspect is so important to 10th birthday, it’s not a question of before my eyes. Skateistan, especially with our focus on whether or not we are going to do it, but providing opportunities for girls and how we can do it even better, to reach even The past 10 years have shown me the capacity of what children living with disabilities. The more of these children. This snowball is ideas can grow into. I am proud of the whole team at impact that being part of Skateistan rolling and now we want to turn it into Skateistan who have continuously pushed the organi- can have in the lives of these children an avalanche. Thank you for your support zation forward. So much was done without a plan or is so significant. Whether it’s the girls in 2017 and over the past 10 years of the resources at the beginning, but now that we do have the skating in Mazar-e-Sharif, which has the Skateistan journey. resources, the support, the plans and the team, we are largest concentration of female skaters determined to reach more children. anywhere in the world, or a child living Oliver Percovich with a disability learning a new skate Founder & Executive Director, Skateistan trick. Imagine how it makes them feel to fly around on a skateboard in a beauti- ful skatepark! It is opening their minds to what they can do in different areas of their lives and giving them confidence to do it. There are so many more children, especially girls and children living with disabilities, that need access to better quality education and fun in their lives. 4 5 INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD NITA WINK (CHAIR) JAMIE THOMAS Executive Coach and Fresh Thinker Professional Skateboarder and Founder of Zero Skateboards DR. SIMON ADAMS TONY HAWK (VICE-CHAIR) Professional Skateboarder Executive Director of the Global Centre and Philanthropist for the Responsibility to Protect BENAFSHA TASMIM MIMI KNOOP Strongheart Fellow and former Professional Skateboarder and Skateistan Education Co-founder of the Women’s Skateboard Alliance Coordinator, Kabul BRYAN RIDGEWAY MORI TAHERIPOUR Skateboard Industry Expert Faculty, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania CATHERINE OBRECHT HOLLY THORPE Philanthropist and Activist Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. 6 7 PROGRESS UPDATE SKATEISTAN INTERNATIONAL By the end of 2017, 51% of our students were girls. We surpassed our global gender goal of 50% girls for the second year in a row and were delighted to be nominated for the Beyond Sport 2017 Impact of the Year Award in recognition of our work on girls’ inclusion. In order to meet this achievement for girls’ participa- tion, we continued to create a female-first environment by employing female Educators, hosting girls-only classes and girls’ days, letting girls skate first at Outreach sessions, maintaining safe private facilities for girls’ participation, and by working with female role models from the community. We also partnered with local organizations to ensure children living with disabilities could take part in our programs. For example, a partnership with the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan led to the inclusion of the deaf community in our programs in Mazar-e-Shar- if. The teachers from the deaf school taught Afghan sign language to our Educators, which they used to provide Skate and Create lessons to deaf students. In Cambodia, we partnered with an organization called Krousar Thmey to engage with deaf children. Our staff in Cambodia also began learning Khmer sign language. The quality of our programs is always This year we restructured our Youth In both Afghanistan and Cambodia, our students even paramount for us. In 2017, we invested in Leadership program from six months of invented the word for skateboarding in their respective growing and up-skilling our international activities to an ongoing program with sign language! programs team, recruiting an Internation- new training milestones. The Homework al Programs Manager to lead training and Help activities that we began running in curriculum design for our Skate Schools. Johannesburg, in partnership with local Staff in Cambodia spent time with the university student volunteers, in 2016 team in South Africa and the Kabul and continued, and were successful through- Mazar-e-Sharif Skate Schools hosted out 2017. Students reported greatly exchanges for Educators, allowing staff improved attitudes towards studying members to share knowledge and ideas. and doing well in school. We plan to All our General Managers attended a training implement these study activities as a new day on trauma-based care to ensure we can extension of the Back-to-School program effectively provide care for children who have in other locations in 2018. experienced trauma in their lives. 8 9 FACTS INTERNATIONAL SKATEISTAN * WE WORK WITH A SAMPLE OF STUDENTS* 2,304 GLOBALLY SAID THEY.... ACTIVE STUDENTS WORLDWIDE *represents number of registered students actively participating in HAVE MADE Skateistan’s programs at least FRIENDS AT three times a month. 1,182GIRLS (51%) 82% SKATEISTAN CHILDREN FROM HAVE LEARNED USEFUL LOW INCOME SKILLS AND LESSONS (OTHER 84,034 1,805 BACKGROUNDS 97% THAN SKATEBOARDING) INSTANCES OF PARTICIPATION ACROSS ALL PROGRAMS IN 2017* *individual students can be in multiple programs. CHILDREN LIVING BELIEVE THEY CAN 163 WITH A DISABILITY 86% DO WELL IN SCHOOL SKATE SCHOOL ETHNICITIES HAVE POSITIVE 30 COMMUNITY EVENTS 20 AND NATIONALITIES 86% SELF-ESTEEM FEEL SAFE AT 93% SKATEISTAN HAVE MADE MISTAKES 94% AND LEARNED FROM THEM BELIEVE THEY WORK *117 students from Afghanistan, 85% WELL IN A TEAM Cambodia and South Africa. ACTIVE STUDENTS BY PROGRAM C H O U T T E S K A O L B A I P Y O U A R E A T O C K S H T E E R E H - R H R A C A C T E L T C U N S O D E H D - A O D - A N O S E D A C T C L E - R O R H E H H K E S U T O T C A C H T A O U A T R I A K L O P E E E B S Y R A T C U Y S B H E L P O O K A I T O U A C H A T O T K E S O H E H H R - R U C C T E C L A T S O A - E R D N E D A 433 1,721 272 184 10 11 TIMELINE 2017 JAN FEB MAR APR ~ Staff and students at our Skate Schools in ~ We announce our curriculum theme for ~ Students at all Skate Schools celebrate ~ We release our new Theory of Change Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif celebrate the 2017 as the “Year of Global Citizenship.” International Women’s Day. to demonstrate our impact. end of the semester. ~ Staff in Phnom Penh reach out to the ~ Staff and Youth Leaders in Cambodia ~ International General Managers’ ~ The Phnom Penh Skate School hosts a local community at Wat Thmey to better take part in the M’lop Tapang annual meeting takes place in Phnom Penh, Human Rights event for the community. support Outreach sessions there. street parade. bringing together Skateistan leaders from Afghanistan, South Africa and ~ Two members of staff from HQ and Cambodia for the first time.