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Episode 38 with Charlie Davis, skateboarder and musician from Edinburgh, Scotland, founder of NGO Skatepal.Together we discussed him growing up and picking up a skateboard in Edinburgh, traveling to Palestine for the first time in 2006, drawing inspiration from Skateistan’s work with youth in Afghanistan to launch a similar program by the name of Skatepal in 2013, crossing paths that same summer in Ramallah with Aram Sabbah and Adham Tamimi, some of the very first skaters in Palestine, developing the NGO in the following years and helping grow the Palestinian skate scene, co-launching Pushing Boarders with Theo Krish, Stuart Maclure and Sander Hölsgens in 2018, a conference about the social impact of skateboarding worldwide, what the future of Skatepal will look like… Intro (00:13) Getting started (01:26) Traveling to Palestine for the first time in 2006 (02:48) Starting Skatepal (05:26) Highlights (12:29) Teaching skateboarding (21:59) Advice for starting an NGO (27:01) Working with Akwaaba (37:05) The future of Skatepal (47:45) Pushing Boarders (52:22) Dream guests for a future edition? (57:52) Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding (59:48) Friends questions (01:01:10) Conclusion (01:27:09) For more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboards
