A non-profit organization in Whistler, B.C., is holding an online auction featuring custom skateboards with handcrafted Indigenous designs to help boost year-round sporting opportunities for Indigenous youth.
Ebba Knutsson, fundraising co-ordinator for the Indigenous Life Sport Academy (ILSA), says the money raised will, in part, go toward donating skateboards to youth in various communities in B.C.
The communities will be chosen by the artists who have donated their work.
“Sport is really a way that we can help kids feel good, fill their confidence … and
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