This is the third year we are doing this (posts from 2022 and 2023). We would like to invite ozbargainers to join The Push-Up Challenge as Team OzBargain to raise fund for suicide prevention & mental health awareness.
The Push-Up Challenge is Australia's largest mental health and fitness event. Each year, hundreds of thousands of Australians take up the challenge to complete a set number of push-ups that represent the number of lives lost to suicide in Australia in the most recent year of available data. We educate participants with daily mental health facts, and participants have the opportunity to fundraise for one of our chosen mental health charities.
For this year,
Participants will need to do 3,249 push-ups over 24 days, between 5-28th of June. That number represents the number of lives lost to suicide in Australia in 2022. You can then use this challenge to raise awareness from family, friends, colleagues or wider community of this issue and call for donation.
To be part of Team OzBargain you'll need to sign up to the challenge and join the team. Please note that a "team" has a cap of 10 members, and currently there are only 6 places left. If there are more people interested, we can have other members creating 2nd, 3rd team, etc (as long as "OzBargain" is in the team name) and I can organise a community of teams to overcome that 10 members limit.
If you are thinking of donating to the cause of suicide prevention and mental health awareness, you can donate to Team OzBargain or specific individuals. Donations over $2 are tax deductible.
Same as last year, OzBargain will donate $100 to each of its team members (or other OzBargain teams if there are any) who have logged at least 50% of the overall push-ups, i.e. we'll donate once you reached 1,625 push-ups. Due to the possibility of having multiple teams, the overall donation from OzBargain will be capped at $2,000 (just in case).
cheers scotty
keen to give it another go this year.