Change came to Asha’s village, Janwaar, in the form of a skatepark. It was the brainchild of German national Ulrike Reinhardt, who had seen firsthand, the success of Afghanistan’s Skateistan program, that helped educate girls through a skatepark. She had similar plans for Janwaar.

It was a daunting task.

It seemed surreal to build a skatepark in a village where many children could barely afford shoes. This was a place that barely got 2 hours of electricity and didn’t even have access to safe drinking water. A skatepark seemed like a ludicrous urban luxury.