Elemental Awareness Foundation (EA) teamed up with the Ethiopian Skateboard Park Project (ESPP) in their efforts to teach kids how to skateboard in Ethiopia. Through Element’s Changing lives through skateboarding program, EA was able to donate shoes and boards to help the ESPP accomplish their goals. They recently made a trip out to Ethiopia to visit the kids and build some ramps. The ultimate goal of the project is to build a Skate Park and community center in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Click Here to learn more about the project and how you can help this dream become a reality. To see more photos from the trip, Click Here.

Elemental Awareness has supported Nathan Gray in his ventures to take skateboarding to the places that most of us dream of going to. His latest project took him to Tunisia to make a film. Now in the final stages of the project, he and his organization, the bedouins, need your help. Click here to find out more about the project and how you can help.
PUSH Tunisia is a skateboard ‘artivism’ project which features a multi-national group of skateboarders, street artists, and volunteers on a trip to Tunisia, eleven months after the revolution.

The Buffalo Mountain School in northern Vermont serves students with emotional, behavioral and learning disabilities. After an initial visit to a local skate park, students were instantly hooked on skateboarding. Now, skateboarding is used as incentive, an outlet and a vehicle to change lives in the program. Students are working hard to raise money toward building an indoor mini halfpipe at the school. The Elemental Awareness Foundation has donated skateboards to help this school get the program off the ground. For more information about the program click here.

On Friday Dec. 2nd, Element and Elemental Awareness teamed up with the WLCAC in Watts, CA for a day of art and skateboarding. Element Advocates and artists Mike Kershnar and Todd Francis were there to help the kids get their creative juices flowing. Element team riders Nyjah Huston, Mark Appleyard and Ray Barbee were there to skate with kids at the recently build skatepark at the community center. In the end, more than 60 kids got to take home skateboards that they had painted. Special thanks goes out to the WLCAC, Create-A-Skate, Vitamin Water and Kind Snacks for helping make this event great.

This past summer, the Elemental Awareness Foundation sent 35 kids up to Element YMCA Skate Camp for a week in the woods.  While there, they got to skate and learn about the environment through the Elemental Awareness wilderness education program.  “EA” is committed to promoting environmental stewardship and social consciousness through their programs.  Camp enrollment is now open for the summer of 2012.  Click here for more details about how you can sign up for camp.  To see photos from camp, click here.