Skate Aid Foundation: Cooperation with the Titus Dittmann Foundation
From the beginning we recognized the enormous power of the skateboard. Skateboarding knows no frontiers and wars, colour of skin or hate, rich or poor: Skateboarding unites and promotes a sense of identity and purpose especially in the development of young people.
With the skate-aid initiative we utilize the power of skateboarding and our entire potential to bring hope on four wheels to young people. Please help us, we rely on your support to achieve our aim and bring a share of happiness and security to children who have been deprived of their childhood. I thank you for your interest and hope you can help to promote this project with any contribution you can make.
Dear reader,
for more than 30 years now, for us everything revolves around skateboarding. From the beginning we recognized the enormous power of the skateboard. Skateboarding knows no frontiers and wars, colour of skin or hate, rich or poor: Skateboarding unites and promotes a sense of identity and purpose especially in the development of young people. From early days we have promoted national and international skateboard-projects. In 2008, when we supported an initiative in Kabul I came to realize once more how ideally instrumental skateboarding is in overcoming differences in areas of conflict. After my first visit to Afghanistan, it was clear to me: I need to stay with it to achieve even more.
In January 2010 I established the Titus Dittmann Foundation. With the skate-aid initiative we utilize the power of skateboarding and our entire potential to bring hope on four wheels to young people, whether in Afghanistan, Africa or with the continuing work in Germany. Please help us, we rely on your support to achieve our aim and bring a share of happiness and security to children who have been deprived of their childhood. I thank you for your interest and hope you can help to promote this project with any contribution you can make.
Sincerely Yours,
Titus Dittmann
The situation
Nairobi is not only Kenya's capital, but, unfortunately, bears the burden of many slums, home to 60 percent of the population. The Kenya Society of skating is now organized by local and already existent scene and is supported by the David in the orphanage Imani working Wichera. He teaches the kids skateboarding and offers them as a way to break out of their difficult living conditions. In addition, he is driving just the planning of a skate park and works in the slums of Nairobi, where one is confronted with a still very high AIDS rate, much poverty and violence.
Through the voluntary social year (DRC) and the support that Skateboarders skate-aid was David Wichera to an ambitious activists. skate-aid supported the Kenya Society of skating in the form of donations in kind such as skateboards, pads, etc. DHL for free transport. Most recently in July 2009.