Koldeweij‚ 19‚ had seen a documentary on the camp on National Geographic television and contacted Dallas Oberholzer‚ founder of the skate camp‚ about spend some time at the place.
“It has been a lot of fun interacting with the children and joining in the skate lessons. I do a lot of YouTube videos with my Go Pro and offered it to the children to give it a try. They loved it. The video shows how they love skate boarding. They were having so much fun that they didn’t want to take it off‚” Koldeweij told TimesLIVE on Monday.
Indigo Skate Camp opened in 2001 to bring youth from rural communities to learn skateboarding and promote social integration.
Oberholzer said they use volunteerism as an income for their Indigo skate camp.
Among the activities volunteers are involved in include fine art‚ music and dance‚ English empowerment sessions‚ theatre and role playing‚ gardening and maintaining hiking and biking trails.
Oberholzer said because of Koldewuij’s interest in YouTube‚ he is assisting with the redevelopment of the camp’s skate boarding instruction manual.
“He is assIsting with our manual development. He also helped rebuild one of the ramps‚” said Oberholzer.
Oberholzer said the camp teaches the youths to have a do-it-yourself attitude and to make them proud to be part of a skateboard family.
“We focus on social integration and some of the sustainable development goals are nutrition and better education‚” said Oberholzer.
He said the children from surrounding areas make use of their facilities after school‚ including the library and computer centre.
- TimesLIVE
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