Eric Stricker Memorial Award: Skateistan & Oliver Percovich - TransWorld SKATEboarding

This year’s Eric Stricker Memorial Award deservedly goes to the incredible people at Skateistan, who have spent the past eight years using skateboarding as a tool of empowerment for youths in Afghanistan, South Africa, and Cambodia. Founded by Oliver Percovich in 2007, and with their first facility opened in ’09 in Kabul, the non-profit, non-governmental organization works with children from a range of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds in some of the most war-torn and impoverished countries on the planet