In order to increase mental health awareness, TELL Japan hopes you will step up to its latest physical challenge.
The Step Up Challenge encourages people to walk 21,081 steps in a single day ¡ª the same number of lives lost to suicide in Japan last year ¡ª during a monthlong campaign that lasts from Sept. 10, World Suicide Prevention Day, until Oct. 10, World Mental Health Day.
The Tokyo-based nonprofit has provided counseling and support to Japan¡¯s international community for close to five decades, and its annual Tokyo Tower Climb last raised ?5 million for TELL and its services in 2019. When the pandemic hit, however, the group changed tack. The result was Step Up, which raised ?1.2 million last year.
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