 how can traveling skaters help get equipment to projects inneed  how can traveling skaters help get equipment to projects inneed  equipment it seems like one of the ongoing challenges for a lot of social skateboarding projects is accessing quality skateboards safety gear and even shoes in the locations where they are operating is there some way we can get organized to use the extra baggage allowance that traveling skateboarders have to link up with equipment donors and carry the stuff over to skate projects in countries that have high shipping customs fees thoughts ideas rhianon thu 8012019 1314 great question by laurendellamarta on mon 8052019 1504 great question ride board by scarrick on tue 9172019 955 hi rhianon can we do a ride board here travelers can post their travel details including location dates and available cargo capacity this way project coordinators and even independent skaters in isolated locations can connect to each other to get gear this would be very cool re ride board by rhianon on tue 9172019 1237 shane i like this idea people can either post in here or if the idea takes off could start a thread in each of the regional sections to this forum ie asia subforum  people could also put out requests like if anyone is traveling from the uk to nepal can you bring a donation of boards we have from a skate shop in london another idea is that anyone who is traveling can look at the social skate map and then contact the projects in the areas they are going to to ask if they can help carry anything over or offer to bring any skate gear donations they ve collected we hope to be setting up a dm direct message feature on this website soon which would make that relatively easy to do there are also organizations like donate for skate that do a great job of collecting quality skate gear so maybe they could use this network to help find people to transport the donations to the various places or even maximizing the baggage allowance of volunteers who are going over for builds etc with a bit of organization we could get a lot of gear to places now safe storage of the skate equipment that s another topic ride board by scarrick on wed 9182019 914 hi rhianon awesome great ideas also it would be cool to make this a two way portal so that individual skaters around the world might use it like a craig s list to find gear that they need for example a skater in iraq might post iso new bearings to be sent to suli skatepark someone might respond i have bearings in paris and someone else could see those posts and write traveling to suli in 1 month from paris and have room for bearings i know that skaters from outside europe and the us are willing to pay what they can to get decks shoes bearings etc this would be cool in that it would allow for a certain amount of autonomy and less isolation for them it would reduce the white savior donation dynamic too which i think would be good in the long run i will share this idea amongst our network of skaters around the world thanks shane ride board by kovalamskateclub on wed 12042019 1018 wow we really like this idea as we are always depending on foreign donations for our skateboarding material last year the governement of india issued a rule that says that al secondhand parcels and packages from foreign countries are not allowed anymore this has the unfortunate effect that some of the stuff we are supossed to get from supporters are being send back at the moment of writing this we have materials gathered for our project at four different locations hannover germany belgium mexico copenhagen denmark if anybody is travelling from these places to india in the near future please let us know also please keep us up to date if this idea is explored any further many thanks let s kick it off by rhianon on thu 12052019 1256 i think we should just start to use this equipment subforum as the ride board so  gaetandep you should just start a new thread called something like needed people to carry gear to india from europe or mexico and repost your above message skateboards for hope has a by skateboard4hope on thu 11182021 1517 skateboards for hope has a partnership with national airlines for free excess baggage however it must be accompanied by a passenger contact betty skateboardsforhopecom for support or information skateboard4hope this is by rhianon on mon 11292021 855 skateboard4hope  this is great to know i went on their airline website and it seems to only be charter planes which destinations do they fly to  