An uplifting story indeed.

Keep Skateistan Rolling

I used to have a Vision Psycho Stick too, way back in the day.

9 out 10 of those girls will be married before their teens are complete...

It isn't about us, it is about them.

And yes, I feel good when I hear girls are learning to read, to defy gravity, to laugh and enjoy life. I can't change the future they face. But to label their struggle or our reaction to it as "feel good fluff" seems overly
harsh.

Nothing can save that country... The culture is sick from the core...

It is what it is...

People can change. The children are the only hope. They deserve better.

... but the momentum in that country that pushes them towards corruption and squalor is quite literally unstoppable.

The children do deserve better... but they aren't going to get it. They are going to live in filth, violence and poverty and so will their children.

in a country that could care less about anyone without money or power, a country as corrupt as they come. Full of violent, brutish, militaristic religious fanatics. Are you giving up on the USA too?
I refuse to give up all hope for a better world.

No, I don't think we should give up hope for Afghanistan's future, but comparing the two countries is utter nonsense.

one country is as bad as another.

But of course, in America, only some lives matter. I am disgusted by the comments on this thread.