From September 10, 2024 (World Suicide Prevention Day) through October 10, 2024 (World Mental Health Day). Buy tickets at https://www.tellevents.org/.
Suicide remains a critical issue that impacts individuals and communities in Japan. To inspire positive change and tackle this uncomfortable but important topic, TELL focuses on Step-Up Challenge 2024 – a month-long, nationwide effort to #StartTheConversation.
WHO: Individuals, communities, schools, embassies, NGOs, and business organizations
WHAT: Take action (by yourself or with a team) using the number 21,837. (You can walk, run, bike, swim, climb, crochet, paint, talk, fundraise – get creative!)
WHERE: Anywhere in Japan or the world
WHEN: September 10 – October 10, 2024
WHY: To honor the 21,837 people who lost their lives to suicide in Japan in 2023.
HOW:
1) Register and buy a ￥1,500 TELL Step Up Ticket (eligible for trophies and swag). Tickets to be available on the TELL website from August 1, 2024. The first 500 ticket holders will receive swag.
2) Join a prescheduled TELL community walk (Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Okinawa) OR make your own walk by yourself or with friend or organize your company teams to compete for the trophies/awards (including most steps in a day, most funds raised, and most creative use of 21,837 number).
Compete with friends, family, business colleagues, and teammates, meet your community, and raise funds and awareness for suicide prevention and mental health care in Japan’s international community. Get your athletic shoes ready and save the dates! We can’t wait to see you there.
Join TELL’s community walks!:
TELL Tokyo Step Up Challenge Candlelight Vigil
Date: September 10, 2024
TIME: 6:30 PM
Location: TELL Tokyo Office to Yoyogi Park
Buy tickets at www.tellevents.org. Ask questions to [email protected].
We will meet at TELL’s office in Minami Aoyama, and walk to Yoyogi Park, where we will have a candle lighting ceremony to memorialize those who have lost their lives to suicide, marking World Suicide Prevention Day together with many others around the globe.
TELL Kansai Step Up Challenge 2024
Date: September 14, 2024
TIME: 10:30 AM at Nagai Park, Kansai
Buy tickets at www.tellevents.org. Ask questions to [email protected].
TELL Fukuoka Step Up Challenge 2024
Date: September 21, 2024
TIME: 10:30 AM at Oohori Park, Fukuoka
Buy tickets at www.tellevents.org. Ask questions to [email protected].