#22KILL 22 Push-ups for 22 Days - Raising awareness for Veteran Suicide through Steemit [Day 14]
Any Steem Dollars made on this post is to be donated to https://www.22kill.com/
This is Day 14 of the 22 push up challenge.
What is #22KILL
#22KILL is a global awareness program that helps to make civilians aware of the alarming suicide rate among veterans. To support the cause they have created a challenge for everyone to get together and accumulate 22 million push-ups worldwide. I have decided to do my part by doing 22 push-ups everyc day for 22 days (approximately 484 push-ups in total).
Here is a screen shot of the current push-up count total as of today on the #22KILL website
Why is it called #22KILL?
In 2012, the VA released a Suicide Data Report that an average of 22 veterans are “KILLED By Suicide” (KBS) everyday. The name “22KILL” is meant to grab people’s attention, because our primary mission begins with raising awareness to the issue. Suicide prevention is a very difficult task to undertake, especially when the general public is unaware of the issue in the first place. In order to prevent or “fix” a problem, one must first learn and understand the problem itself and its causes. By educating ourselves, we’ll be able to identify the triggers that can lead someone to thoughts of suicide, and confront those issues as they come, rather than letting them accumulate into something much worse.
Links to; Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9, Day 10, Day 11, Day 12, Day 13.
Read my commentary on Day 1 if you'd like to know why I am motivated to do this.
Day 1 raised $1.911 SBD. Thank you to the 51 people that voted
Day 2 raised $15.995 SBD. Thank you to the 43 people that voted
Day 3 raised $65.887 SBD. Thank you to the 38 people that voted
Day 4 raised $0.32 SBD. Thank to the 39 people that voted
Day 5 raised $1.182 SBD. Thank you to the 45 people that voted
Day 6 raised $3.084 SBD. Thank you to the 52 people that voted
Day 7 raised $75.843 SBD. Thank you to the 59 people that voted
Day 8 raised $57.875 SBD. Thank you to the 45 people that voted
Day 9 raised $55.031 SBD. Thank you to the 66 people that voted
Day 10 raised $59.628 SBD. Thank you to the 74 people that voted
Day 11 raised $2.38 SBD. Thank you to the 61 people that voted
Day 12 raised $1.427 SBD. Thank you to the 68 people that voted
Day 13 raised $1.63 SBD. Thank you to the 62 people that voted
Steemit has so far raised $298.07 USD and donated $293.45 USD (346.31 SBD) for Veteran Suicide Awareness in 13 days!
The minimum donation amount is $22 USD and so I have been donating every time we raise $22 or more.
$19 USD is needed for the next donation.
*Every $22 USD or more that is raised from these posts is to be donated accordingly
Thanks to all the Steemian's supporting this cause!
It's so cool what you are doing!
We can feature your project on our @steemitcharity page to try to raise some more money, let me know if you are interested
Hey @katyakov, thanks! I'm cool with that. Just donate the money made from that post to the www.22kill.com website on behalf of Steemit. Just let me know so I vote it and add any donations to my totals as a side note :D
Sure, that's what we do! Donate money to different charities that we feature.
Ok, I wîll make a post next week and send you the link.
Good luck to you!
Hi @senseiteekay, just stopping by to let you know that this post was one of my favourite reads yesterday. You can read my comments about it here.
Thanks for the shout out. I've been making greater donations than $22 by the way, just to be clear. We've donated $293.45 US so far.
I said in multiples of $22.. not that the donations were just $22
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