Kampala Skateboard Initiative is a Non profit organization founded by Omeri Elvis in 2022 aiming to develop skateboarding in Africa using the little we have to battle drugs and gang influence in Kampala, Uganda.
We do this through weekly training sessions with children from ages 5 to 18 years old, conducting skateboarding workshops on the Basics of skating, skate tricks, Discipline and the spirit of skating.
I have been skating since i was 15 years old and greatly inspired by Nyjah Houston's skating style, i love to shred both streets and parks.
As a street style skater, i have been skating with Isaac for the past 5 years both on a mission to use the power of skateboarding to change our local community
The Gnars mission of onboarding the next million shredders onchain was first introduced to us when Two skaters, Garcia and Rennan from Brazil came to distribute skateboards and skating equipment to different organizations in Uganda
Garcia Rodrigues had initially reached out to us via our Instagram after watching clips of our training sessions with the Kids rolling boards in the Dirt. With a mission to build a skateable mini ramp so as to enable us have better training grounds and further build our goal towards an Indoor skatepark.
Gnars DAO being a premier web3 action sports community, has attracted us to further connect with various skaters from around the world such as from Brazil, America and possibly Asia. we feel strongly about Joining this team and represent the shredder experience while utilizing this new blockchain technology.
Asking for 3 gnars Airdrop NFTs for the 3 web3 members of Kampala Skateboard Initiative which was donated twelve (12) skate equipment by Gnarcia and Dino Brazil team when they visited Uganda and this was the inaugural skate community that Garcia Rodrigues got connected to in the Skate capital of Africa
