CrossFit Illuminate and Peace Stamps will be teaming up to offer a free community workout on Saturday, August 13, 2022.

We will be doing a very special workout that is a tribute to the women of Bamyan, Afghanistan that are oppressed by the Taliban, as well as the whole Hazara race that is facing genocide under Taliban rule.

In May 2021, Katelyn Jarvis visited Afghanistan as a tourist. She had been doing CrossFit for about a year at this point and wanted to find a box to workout at while in town. She discovered that there was one CrossFit gym in Afghanistan, CrossFit Bamyan.

The gym was in the basement of a nondescript building and every day, women would come to the gym and workout behind a dead-bolted steel door, with thick blackout curtains drawn. These women risked their lives everyday to go to

CrossFit Bamyan and exercise their bodies, something that sometimes we take for granted. 

In tribute to these brave women and all of the brave women in Afghanistan, Katelyn had a tribute WOD created for them through WODWell. It is the same workout she did with them on May 18, 2021. It is the same workout we will do on Saturday, August 13, 2022.

We ask, if you can, to please bring a donation to support TESL, an organization working to secretly provide an education for women in Bamyan, Afghanistan.