In this small booklet I tell the story of why Janwaar got its second skatepark and how all happened. It’s illustrated by Nilesh Auti. The book is meant to thank all those who’ve helped us to realize this second park.
For our English audience, this report is only available in German 🙁 This is a report written by Benjamin Fritz who volunteered for two months in Janwaar and helped us to build the new skatepark. Von Benjamin Fritz Benjamin Fritz, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Industrial Ecology (INEC), war zwei Monate lang bei einem ungewöhnlichen […]
To celebrate the new skatepark and the new year, we had a party at our Villa Janwaar. All the villagers and the kids together made the food and at least 5000 pooris😅. And at the skatepark we cut our New Year’s Cake. Gatherings like these can really help the village to grow as a community. […]
For our new skatepark in Janwaar we’ve build a couple of walls to protect the area from floods during the monsoons. Now after the first rains we see, the work was well done. Lucky us 🙂 Over the last two weeks we started with some “detail” work to make the surrounding area look nice. We’ve […]
The Skateroom is a social entreprise that supports independent NGO’s through art and skate. They are based in Brussels Belgium. They partner with huge brands, first class international museums and well-known artits from around the world to produce – what I call – ARTBOARDS. Paul McCarthy, Ai Weiwei, Shepard Fairey and foundations such as the […]