I can't even describe how excited I am about this group I found. It's called the Uganda Skateboarder's Union and their mission is to bring health entertainment and sporty camaraderie to the poverty stricken children of Uganda.

They are so awesome, it hurts.

Ugandan Jackson Mubiru and South African Shael Swart are shredders who with a little help of their friends, founded the USkU and set out to build Uganda's first skate park in Kitintale, a working class suburb of Kampala with extremely limited resources. How limited?

Not only have they built the park by hand, but when they created the first mini-ramp of the skate park, they had only 2 skateboards (both donated) to share among all the future shredders. Two years later, a generous donation from Tony Hawk's Foundation has given the kids much needed gear, boards and equipment.

Am so in love with this project ---when I was a kid I used to skateboard all the time-- that I will send them a donation.

I hope you do too.