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The 40 minute fundraise. 40 ways you can help.

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What is the 40 minute fundraise?
In Zambia a lesson lasts for 40 minutes. Will you fundraise for 40 minutes to fund new classrooms and teachers’ houses at Simakakata Community School? You can jump, busk, run, bake and much, much more. Learn more >

Here are 40 things you can do to help.

  1. Share your favourite fundraising idea.
  2. Help to design the fundraising materials
  3. Tell one person about the 40 minute fundraise
  4. Join the LearnAsOne fan page on Facebook
  5. Add a post to your favourite forum
  6. Arrange a busking event
  7. Find a race to enter
  8. Share our new homepage
  9. Sell lollies in your local nightclub
  10. Tell a cabbie about the campaign
  11. Sell some cakes
  12. Share the RT love on Twitter
  13. Host a quiz
  14. Share the Simakakata story
  15. Do a sponsored silence
  16. Run a 40 minute fundraise in your community
  17. Put up some posters
  18. Mention Nshima and the 40 minute fundraise during dinner
  19. Host a race night
  20. Run a 40 foot putt challenge
  21. Email your friends and tell them about the 40 minute fundraise
  22. Throw a wet sponge at your teacher or a local celeb
  23. Organise a swimathon
  24. Donate your Facebook status
  25. Organise a curry night
  26. Sell hugs
  27. Put on an aerobics-athon
  28. Run a 5-a-side football tournament
  29. Take part in a slave auction
  30. Tell your Mum and Dad about the 40 minute fundraise
  31. Host a tea party
  32. Do some sponsored Karaoke
  33. Wash cars for charity
  34. Run a treasure hunt
  35. Host a fundraising BBQ
  36. Take on the 40 minute press-up challenge
  37. Get sponsored to do keep-ups
  38. Create something and sell it on eBay
  39. Piggy back a fundraiser onto another event
  40. Organise a name the bear contest

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