<h3 dir="ltr">Goodpush Summit in Johannesburg</h3>

<p dir="ltr">In early October the team at Skateistan South Africa hosted the very first Goodpush Summit, bringing together around 35 people working in social skate projects worldwide. The Summit featured four days of workshops, presentations, discussion and skating, with 25 visiting participants coming from:</p>

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	<li>Zimbabwe</li>
	<li>Angola</li>
	<li>Zambia</li>
	<li>Mozambique</li>
	<li>Bangladesh</li>
	<li>USA</li>
	<li>Greece</li>
	<li>and all over South Africa!</li>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>The Workshops</strong></p>

<p dir="ltr">The Summit kicked off with presentations by all the projects that attended, demonstrating an amazing diversity of contexts and approaches based on the same underlying love of skateboarding. We heard about Bangladesh Street Kids Aid’s work with homeless children in Dhaka, the regular skate sessions in the streets of Zimbabwe, the activation of Angola’s recently built skatepark, the plans for building Mozambique’s first concrete park, and the growing girls’ program at Indigo Youth Movement – as well as from many other leading and emerging skate projects. The presentations were followed by a lunch skate tour through the streets of central Johannesburg.</p>

<p>The rest of the week then featured workshops on Child Protection, Youth Leadership, Measuring Impact, Community Engagement, Skate Lessons and Games, Organizational Capacity, and Inclusion, with tons of sharing, learning and inspiration along the way. Everyone contributed tips and tricks (literally) –&nbsp;with our daily skate sessions seeing first drop-ins, first tre flips and everything in between!</p>

<p><strong>Social Skate and the SDGs</strong></p>

<p>We also built off the inputs from the Goodpush Meeting in Copenhagen through discussions around common goals and challenges. Between the two Goodpush events we gathered input from 35 different social skate organizations on which of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are their top priority (graph below).&nbsp;</p>
