<p>250,000 skips...</p> <p>...for&nbsp;<span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>skills</strong> <strong>for 50 Zimbabweans</strong></span> 'stuck in the rut' of poverty (scroll down for more info).</p> <p>This is a fundraising page with a difference. &nbsp;You can <span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>donate to participate</strong></span>! &nbsp;We need lots of people to help us reach our target. Here's how it works...</p> <p><span style="color: #ff6600;">1.</span> Donate (<span style="color: #ff6600;">h</span><span style="color: #ff6600;">ere on this page!<span style="color: #000000;">)&nbsp;</span></span>&pound;1 for each 50 skips (with a skipping rope!) you challenge yourself to. &nbsp;E.g. &pound;20 for 1,000 skips*.<br><span style="color: #ff6600;">2. </span>Get skipping! &nbsp;Be imaginative about where, with whom...<br><span style="color: #ff6600;">3.</span> Share your story and/or photos (email through <a href="http://www.seed-project.org/index.php?page=contact+us">contact page on SEED's website</a>)<br><span style="color: #ff6600;">4.</span> Check out others' stories and photos on <a href="http://www.seed-project.org/?page=Stories">SEED's website</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.seed-project.org"></a><span style="font-size: 14px; color: #ff6600; line-height: 19px;"><strong><em>"But I can't skip!"</em></strong></span></p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">If you'd like to participate, but don't feel quite up to skipping, then you can still help reach our target. &nbsp;Follow the same steps above but put in your message 'Pass the skips'. &nbsp;Then we'll match you with someone who has the energy to do the skips on your behalf. &nbsp;Or you could mix and match. &nbsp;Perhaps you want to donate &pound;20 but can only manage 100 skips yourself. &nbsp;Put 'Pass 900 skips' in your message!</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>More about the cause<br></strong></span>The Zimbabweans who will be supported to develop skills through this project weren't able to finish their schooling as children due to poverty. Their families couldn't afford school fees and needed their children to earn a living. Now as adults, many feel trapped in poverty. &nbsp;They have insecure, poorly paid jobs, and live far from family and friends.</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The SEED Project has already helped people develop skills. &nbsp;People like Adam Rosha. &nbsp;SEED helped Adam to make the transition from gardener to electrician, through encouragement and training. &nbsp;He can now support his family and returns to SEED to share his new electrician's skills, and his story, with other gardeners. &nbsp;Adam says, "<em>SEED inspired me to realise that I am worth more than I thought. &nbsp;Now I want to challenge others to realise how much they too can achieve.</em>"</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Your donations will help more people like Adam to realise their potential and improve their quality of life. <span style="color: #ff6600;">&nbsp;Donate to participate</span> now!</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">* Most healthy adults can do about 100 skips per minute.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>