skate-aid visits ASM!

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For those of you who may not know, German skateboarding non-profit skate-aid is ASM's primary sponsor. 

Skate-aid's Torben Oberhellmann's has been on a tour of all of skate-aid's projects in Africa. Our project in Maputo was his last (but certainly not least) stop. 

Skate-aid has been supporting ASM for the past five years. Besides accompanying us to our official approved status of a society, they collected donations for our first ramps. These ramps were built in the center of Maputo on a basketball court and there are desperately in need for renovation. Thanks to a donation of ete-clothing, the reconstruction has started and a new curb could be built too. 

A very special emotional moment was the first personal encounter between the president of the ASM and Torben. Before this encounter, they'd only "known" each other only by phone and emails. For the past few years, Isard has been fighting for a public skate-park but unfortunately unsuccessful. That’s why he decided to provide his private property to build a youth and cultural center in Maxaquene. Isard is investing his own time and resources in order to give the kids of Mozambique to the chance to have a better future. This not only earned the ASM skate-aid's support, also the GIZ – the German Society for International Cooperation, shows great interest in the project. Patricia Bitter, responsible for Sport and Development within the GIZ, is excited about skate-aid and the sustainability of the project.

Isard and Torben meet for the first time.

Finally Torbens journey came to an end – with a lot of lasting impressions and new ideas. skate-aid is growing bigger and bigger and reaches more and more kids in Africa, but the identity remains. It’s very important to skate-aid to bear reference to their projects and always develop them further. That’s the only way to secure the sustainability of their projects, to connect them and to encourage their autonomy.

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