Kalemba Skim: Angola
Most people in the skimboarding community would never expect to see their sport reaching the developing nations of Africa. Surprisingly, there is a group of young children in Angola, a country on Africa’s Southwestern coast, who have taken to the beach to skimboard. The ‘boards’ they use are not something most people would consider a skimboard. They use whatever they can find from pieces of scrap wood to old street signs.
Tchiyna Matos is a woman in Angola who has started a movement in the country to keep young children away from the violence that has plagued the nation for over 30 years by providing a safe environment for the children to express their passion for skimboarding. Shein of Gorgonitas Skim interviewed Tchiyna to see what her project was all about. Check out the full article in Spanish here. It can also be read in English by using Google Chrome’s ‘Translate’ feature. We’re stoked to see skimboarding reaching all parts of the world!
Yeeeeee!!!
Thanks a lot Aaron and Shea. Really nice new for the kids.
They will be really happy for a few days, for sure!
Huggs!
This is pretty darned awesome.
very very nice, it is great to see that we´re not living in a pure world of egoism and consum, that there are still people with ilusion to change this hard world !!
Congratulations !!
Hey, I would really like to find out bit more about this project seeing that I live in South Africa and I run an organisation called Inspired2Become that does youth development through sport such as skimboarding. Could you give me a contacts for people involved please?
Thanks
Ey Chris!
You can talk about all with Tchiyna Matos
Her facebook wall (http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/tchiyna.matos)
Good luck!
This is awesome!
this is awesome!
Thank you all for this we don’t have no more word’s to say… Thank you
KalembaSkim-Ilha do Cabo-Luanda-Angola!!!
great job Tchyina!!!
PDM;
That is a great achievement for the kids, Tchiyna.
Congrats and keep up the good work.
Tchiynitaaaa keep up the good work querida..you dont need to do or say anything else than that….Im sure that this has been an inspiration for a lot of people who want to make a difference out there like you!!! We are so proud of you, n will support u all the ways down amiga!!!!!!
Tchiynitaaaa keep up the good work querida..you don’t need to do or say anything else than that….I’m sure that this has been an inspiration for a lot of people who want to make a difference out there like you!!! We are so proud of you, n will support u all the way down amiga!!!!!!
Victoria, Exile, Zap must give a gift (a set of skimboard table) at this corageous boyz.
Wow, this is amazing. Thanks for sharing this inspiring story.
I think we should make a mission up from South Africa to deliver some proper boards to these aspiring skimboarders.
Great to know that skimboarding is growing all over Africa.
Thank you Sean that it will great
if you realy whant to do that please contact me.
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Tchiyna
Just to let you all know that is note as made a lot for this project in Angola
thank you all. We really need this kind of support because this project is not only a sport protect is all sow saving some kid’s from the street’s…
wow this is just great… for years this angolan kids have fun with simple woods and a great will.. and now they have the opportunitie to show what they already know and learn much more with all of the skimboard comunity..social communication is one hell of a way to help this project grow.. thank u all for the support
wow..so nice….i love the way they play.. …they use wooden board same here in phillipines….wow….keep it local guys…hangloose…
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I want one of those boards!
It’s great to see this posted in skimonline. Its an iniciative that should be supported and it should also serve as a example.
Victoria, zap, exile etc, should all give these guys at least a board like a portuguese brand called ‘folha skimboards’ did..
And it would be great to see some pro skimboarders teaching them some techniques and serving as a model to these kids
For all that want to contact the Kalemba project for anything please send a email to kalembaskim@gmail.com we are preparing for the formation for the kid’s and them we are going to open the scholl were the others we learn. Angola does not have a skimboard culture sow is not being very easy… Thank you all