STILL, WE RUN! NOT YOUR AVERAGE CHARITY RUN
By Preveena Jayabalan
Mental health awareness is a rising conversation that deserves special emphasis in today’s everevolving society. With a quarter of the world’s population regularly struggling with it because of its potency to affect everyone regardless of age, sexual orientation, race, religion or creed. Awareness is definitely not the solution to this ever-growing problem but it definitely does two really amazing things to humanity; it provides hope and support for the victims of mental health and it sheds light on the sufferings of these victims whilst destigmatizing mental health issues and as well as debunking the myths that come along with them. As part of their initiative to bring light to mental health awareness, Taylor’s College Student Council (TCSC) organized, Still, We RUN!, a charity run which was a pioneer event held in the lush, green and nature oriented campus of the University of Malaya where 90% of its profits were channeled 14
