<p><strong>Recently, two of our students in Afghanistan had an incredible opportunity - to travel to Nanjing, China, with the Afghan National Olympic Committee and represent Afghanistan in an international skateboarding training camp. Atefa* and Manochehr* traveled with Noorzai, our Programs Officer from Mazar-e-Sharif, who would act as their Coach during the training camp. </strong></p>

<p>OCA (Olympic Council of Asia) created an opportunity to bring many young Asian skateboarders together to showcase brave skateboarders from Asian countries, ahead of the Olympics in Tokyo next year. As a coach, I traveled with Atefa (from Mazar) and Manochehr (from Kabul) to represent Afghanistan.</p>

<p><strong>First impressions</strong></p>

<p>It was the first time for both of them to travel outside Afghanistan and the first time that they had been on an airplane.</p>
