Actively learning: The children first meet for school lessons in everything from the arts, to math and sciences before striking out for a skate lesson

Empowerment: The group is especially focused on empowering girls and the children of Kabul who work outside on the streets to help support their families

Genius: One of the world's poorest and most conservative countries seems a strange place to set up a skateboarding school, but the founders say it has proved a remarkably successful way to reach out to marginalized children, particularly girls.