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Will you help kids with genetic diseases?

This August, take on the 100 Skips a Day challenge and help find cures for kids with genetic diseases.

1 in 20 kids faces a birth defect or genetic disease, like cancer and crystic fibrosis. And these kids need our help! Grab your skipping rope and sign up to do 100 skips each day across the whole month.

Feel great with a super fun fitness challenge! Your support will save the lives of kids living with genetic diseases and cancers.

How it works

Sign up to skip!

Join thousands of Skippers in support of sick kids! Feel great taking on 100 skips a day in August.

Spread the word

Share your challenge with friends, family and workmates! Ask them to support and sponsor you.

Save lives

Every dollar you raise during your challenge supports kids with genetic diseases and cancers.

Your skips will help save kids like Alessia

When Alessia was born, her parents were delivered devastating news. She was the first child in NSW to be picked up for Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

This condition would cause the nerves connecting to Alessia’s muscles to waste away. It would affect her ability to sit up, to crawl, to walk and she would eventually lose the ability to breathe.

“We were told she wouldn’t make it past two,” Alessia’s mother Adriana said.

But then came a glimmer of hope. NSW had just started a groundbreaking gene therapy. With one injection, Alessia’s genetic error could be corrected within her cells, effectively curing her condition.

Alessia became the first child in NSW to receive the therapy, and it worked. Alessia is a happy and healthy seven-year-old lacking only a small amount of muscular strength in her legs.

Your support of the Jeans for Genes Skipping Challenge helps fund the research that makes gene therapy possible! You’ll help save kids like Alessia and help us find cures to genetic diseases and cancers.