Project’s presentation: Objectives and vision
Roller and skate practice is minimally developed in Cambodia.
Nevertheless, roller and skateboard raise quite an interest amongst youth.
In order to allow underprivileged children to assume their capacity and talent in good and safe conditions; having the desire to make urban sports activity accessible to all, the PSE team wishes to achieve an ambitious goal ; The creation of the first skate/roller school and of the 1st Cambodian Skate Park.
Indeed, a part of the innovative aspect of the project, the skate and the roller are activities, which need patience, tenacity, will-power, self-challenge, team-spirit and initiative. These values and elements of good behavior are essential for children, who will later, enter working life.
PSE’s beneficiaries are all former street children, who had the habit of working and living autonomously before being integrated in to our programs. This change into a disciplined and hierarchical environment often unsettles them.
The skate and the roller play a great evacuating role, being the mid-way between self-control and the free-style.
A few weeks ago, a first material donation enabled PSE’s children to discover roller skating. This truely successful experience resulted in the following observation: If we wish this activity to develop on professional tracks we have to form partnerships and have professional exchanges with persons, whose life-passion is in this sport; in Europe, the United States and anywhere else in the world.
We wish that this skate park will be a place for freedom and personal challenge for youth, as well as the corner-stone for the first Cambodian skaters’ generation.
