BOORT District School captains are leading the push for mental health awareness and community fitness this month.
Lucy Malone,. Eliza Perryman and Eddie Moresi yesterday launched Boort’s participation in the national Push-Up Challenge.
They used a lunchtime sausage sizzle to start the challenge that runs until June 28 that saw all students completing their first push-ups.
“This is a cause which we have taken on to promote mental and physical well being in the school and wider community, said Lucy.  
She said participants were being asked to complete 3249 push-ups or alternative exercises over 24 days.
Each push-up will represent  the 3249 lives lost to suicide in Australia in 2022. 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,” Lucy said. 
Since 2017, the Push-Up Challenge has raised more than $40 million for mental health programs and services and engaged more than 500,000 people to push for better mental health.
Lifeline and Movember are among charities supported by the challenge.