<p dir="ltr">Skateistan is on a mission to empower children through skateboarding and education. Giving children access to safe spaces and education provides life skills that go beyond the skatepark and the classroom. To increase the impact that Skateistan has for the local community, we created a new learning environment for children at Skateistan in Cambodia. Thanks to the support from the Australian Embassy <a href="https://cambodia.embassy.gov.au/penh/cooperation.html">Direct Aid Program (DAP),</a> we built a library and a reading room! Scroll down for a visual tour.&nbsp;</p>

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In January, we updated all of you on the progress of the library earlier this year in the blog post <a href="https://medium.com/@Skateistan/local-update-dropping-in-library-in-cambodia-c0fad1659e93">‘Local Update: Dropping In Library in Cambodia’</a>. Since then, the library opened to students and became an immediate draw to children in the local community, so much so that an additional reading space was built to accommodate the high number of children. The reading space allows the team to manage two smaller groups more effectively. The library has now been open for seven months, and we are thrilled to report record attendance numbers of students in the Dropping In sessions in Phnom Penh.&nbsp;</p>
