Skateboarding Unites

Hi, my name is Mirzet Salkanović. With some friends I started Zenit Skateboard Club, a non-governmental and non-profit organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the aim to improve the skateboarding scene and give our youngsters a perspective of happiness and freedom.

People in Bosnia and Herzegovina are still badly scarred by the Balkan war of the 1990s. Instead of growing their lifes in their own country, young people are forced to move since they don't have opportunities to develop their ideas fully. They are limited by strong corruption and very weak quality of life. Everything as a consequence of the war. Therefor, we want to act in our community. We want to show them that things can be better since we noticed huge interest in skateboarding sessions that we organised so far. Children and teenagers, young people, they keep participating in all these activities trying to find a hobby that will distract them from the sad reality we all live in.

We firmly believe that anything that can bring young people together can make a difference, limit the damage, prevent separation, and give opportunities that our generation did not have.

For us, skateboarding has the power to connect people from all over the world, as well as bring together all parts of our country. For this reason we organize skateboard workshops all over the country to promote skateboarding as an alternative to all the bad things our youth is surrounded by. Our workshops are attended by children and teens from all ethnic and religious groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We bring them together to recreate the unity that is being lost after the war.

Zenit Skateboard Club already has all the bases in place to grow and spread its activities, but we still need financial support. We need material to build skateboarding ramps and obstacles, we need tools and special equipment. The main thing we need, is a van to transport all the obstacles and ramps to the locations where we hold our workshops.

Please visit our website www.znt.ba and follow us on [email redacted]

We deeply thank you for any donation to help us bring unity back to our country, give perspective to our youth and spread skateboarding as for what it is.

Skateboarding unites.