Having lost a brother and two sisters to the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, Asim Khan’s family was fragmented from a young age. While some of his family did manage to survive the catastrophe, he still grew up with a yearning for what was gone.
Because free-running is not particularly profitable in Pakistan, Asim Khan has taken up a plethora of side gigs to support his family.
Prior to his discovery of parkour, Asim was entrenched in the worlds of taekwondo and kickboxing. While, at this point, fighting is more of a hobby for Asim than a lifestyle, he values all that he has learned from it.
On October 8, 2005, the catastrophic Kashmir earthquake struck Pakistan. Centered near the city of Muzaffarabad, it registered a magnitude of 7.6 and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).
Pakistan’s Asim Khan is a freerunner, teacher, fighter, and above all, a survivor. When he was only six years old, he survived the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, a natural disaster that killed over 80,000 people and left 4 million homeless.
In 2007, Chicago native Alex Levesque founded Automotive Mentoring Group (AMG). The nonprofit organization recruits gang members from across the city and teaches them the skills necessary to build careers as auto mechanics.
A film professor at New Mexico State University, Raj instills within his students more than just his knowledge of filmmaking: he is able to connect with them via his lived experiences. And Raj has a lot of those.
Ecuadorian chef Rodrigo Pacheco was a contestant on Netflix hit “The Final Table,” operates three restaurants, and is the founder of permaculture project and sustainable tourist destination, Bocavaldivia.
Dan O’Rourke is a special kind of teacher. Growing up in harsh conditions, he has a great understanding of the trials and tribulations that all people face. And he teaches his students to be impartial, to argue with respect to the other side.
Yecson Preciado was born and raised in Guayaquil, a port city which serves as Ecuador’s commercial capital, but also has the highest poverty rate in the country. He was brought up by a dangerous father who regularly abused him as a child. At just ten-years-old, Yecson had enough and chose to run away to live on the dangerous streets, rather than be beaten by h
Having lost a brother and two sisters to the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, Asim Khan’s family was fragmented from a young age. While some of his family did manage to survive the catastrophe, he still grew up with a yearning for what was gone.
Because free-running is not particularly profitable in Pakistan, Asim Khan has taken up a plethora of side gigs to support his family.
Prior to his discovery of parkour, Asim was entrenched in the worlds of taekwondo and kickboxing. While, at this point, fighting is more of a hobby for Asim than a lifestyle, he values all that he has learned from it.
On October 8, 2005, the catastrophic Kashmir earthquake struck Pakistan. Centered near the city of Muzaffarabad, it registered a magnitude of 7.6 and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).
Pakistan’s Asim Khan is a freerunner, teacher, fighter, and above all, a survivor. When he was only six years old, he survived the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, a natural disaster that killed over 80,000 people and left 4 million homeless.
In 2007, Chicago native Alex Levesque founded Automotive Mentoring Group (AMG). The nonprofit organization recruits gang members from across the city and teaches them the skills necessary to build careers as auto mechanics.
A film professor at New Mexico State University, Raj instills within his students more than just his knowledge of filmmaking: he is able to connect with them via his lived experiences. And Raj has a lot of those.
Ecuadorian chef Rodrigo Pacheco was a contestant on Netflix hit “The Final Table,” operates three restaurants, and is the founder of permaculture project and sustainable tourist destination, Bocavaldivia.
Dan O’Rourke is a special kind of teacher. Growing up in harsh conditions, he has a great understanding of the trials and tribulations that all people face. And he teaches his students to be impartial, to argue with respect to the other side.
Yecson Preciado was born and raised in Guayaquil, a port city which serves as Ecuador’s commercial capital, but also has the highest poverty rate in the country. He was brought up by a dangerous father who regularly abused him as a child. At just ten-years-old, Yecson had enough and chose to run away to live on the dangerous streets, rather than be beaten by h
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