Skate Nation

We run our own skate school together with Stockholm Skatepark called Skate Nation, which is a way to welcome and integrate refugee kids into the Swedish society. It started during what is referred to as the refugee crisis in 2015. We wanted to do something and the thing we usually do is skateboarding so we combined the two. We didn’t really have a plan at first, we just did it once to see if it would work, and it did. So we decided to do it again, and now it has been going on for eight years, which is cool.

But the coolest thing is that skateboarding as a tool to integrate people into to a new society really works. As soon as these kids start skating they are no longer looked upon as refugee kids or whatever, they are looked upon as skaters. And the skate scene in Stockholm has been more than welcoming. So now you will see these kids ripping all over the city. Their Swedish is better than their peers who don’t skate, and they now have friends from all over the world. Read more about Skate Nation here.