Skate Soccer players playing a game with spectators using a bus stop bench to watch to game.

From L-R: Skate Soccer players “Smallee” Aminu Yaro and Mohammed Abdallah during a game against fully able-bodied players. The game is played at a public car park in downtown Accra, and onlookers use a bus stop bench to watch the game. Because of lack of funding, the players do not have access to gloves to protect their hands from the hot, dirty, and unsafe tarmac of the car park. Instead, they have to improvise by wearing slippers on their hands. Some play even with bare hands.

Skate Soccer in Ghana is a game played by the physically challenged who use locally made skateboards to support them. Many of the people who play Skate Soccer earn their living by begging on the streets of Accra, Ghana. There are still stigmas towards the physically challenged in Ghana, who face several challenges, so this makes it harder for them to integrate into a normal lifestyle within the society. The aim of Skate Soccer is to get them off the streets so that they stop begging and rather, get proper jobs. With proper jobs, they will also get more respect from the society. Skate Soccer in Ghana is an initiative started by Albert Frimpong.
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