This holiday season, Thankmas, created by Jacksepticeye, is BACK! Thankmas has raised over $26 million for important causes. This year, our focus will be on an incredibly important issue: mental health.
We're supporting TWO amazing organizations, Samaritans and Crisis Text Line to bring international assistance to those in need. 700,000 people are taken each year due to suicide and something must be done. Working with these organizations, we have formulated a plan to increase their capacity to help an additional 2 million people per year.
Crisis Text Line is a nonprofit organization that provides free, 24/7, confidential text-based mental health support in English and Spanish. Since its launch in 2013, we have supported over 10 million conversations in the United States and 14 million globally together with our affiliates in Canada, the UK and Ireland. Crisis Text Line's more than 75,000 trained volunteer Crisis Counselors bring texters from a hot moment to a cool calm through nonjudgmental support and empowers each texter to use their own strengths and coping strategies. We are committed to creating an empathetic world where nobody feels alone. Individuals seeking confidential support can connect with us via text, web chat and WhatsApp. To be connected to a live, trained nonjudgmental volunteer Crisis Counselor, text HELLO to 741741 or 443-SUPPORT in WhatsApp or text HOLA to 741741 or 442-AYUDAME in WhatsApp for Spanish or connect with us via web chat.
Samaritans is a charity working across the UK and Ireland to reduce the number of people who take their own lives and help people who are struggling to cope with how they're feeling or with life's challenges.
We know that life can sometimes be incredibly tough. Thanks to the dedication of around 23,000 volunteers, Samaritans can be there for anyone, whatever they are going through day or night, 365 days a year. We're also at the heart of local communities, working with schools, workplaces, railways, prisons and hospitals to offer training and support, preventing suicide and helping people turn their lives around.
