The Talk
Janwaar Castle is the first skate park in rural India and an award-winning charity project empowering an entire village community through skate boarding and new ways of learning. For an ancestral village which hasn’t seen much change over the last decades, Janwaar Castle is provocative and challenging. It is “counter-culture” – just like skateboarding. It is about disobedience and disruption that break down barriers and overcome ancient taboos.
In Janwaar, they are getting the schooling right, attracting a constant flow of visitors from all over the world, improving the infrastructure and traveling with the kids to other skating destinations in the country and abroad to interact with other skateboarders – in short: they are opening a wide range of opportunities to let the kids pursue their dreams. And they dream big! Some of them dream of becoming professional skateboarders. Some of them dream of serving India. Others want to become doctors. One of them even said he wants to be the Prime Minister of India!
Skateboarding has given them the opportunity to become leaders for a better tomorrow. Nothing seems impossible in Janwaar Castle!
Ulrike, the founder, tells us all about this amazing initiative.