TOMORROW X TOGETHER Launches Youth Mental Health Campaign, BIGHIT Pledges $1.4 Million

TOMORROW X TOGETHER is moving toward a amended time for the world’s youth, with the K-pop radical launching a planetary mental health run with UNICEF.

Kickstarted connected Tuesday (Sept. 30), the K-pop stars’ caller inaugural aims to advocator for empathy-based intelligence wellness strategies, unfastened conversations, the destigmatization of intelligence wellness issues and the empowerment of younker to physique resilience. Members SOOBIN, YEONJUN, BEOMGYU, TAEHYUN and HUENINGKAI officially launched the run by visiting UNICEF’s offices successful New York City and mingling with 20 different young leaders successful the intelligence wellness space.

SOOBIN gave a code during the event, arsenic did UNICEF’s lawman enforcement director, Kitty van der Heijden, and Cho Mijin, the enforcement manager of the Korean committee for UNICEF.

“Through our philharmonic journey, we person learned that expressing emotion is simply a motion of strength,” SOOBIN said successful his speech, noting however the members of TXT person ever prioritized being unfastened astir their ain intelligence wellness struggles. “Now with our run with UNICEF, we privation to assistance make a harmless and inclusive abstraction for younker to freely explicit their emotions.”

As portion of the initiative, the lad band’s label, BIGHIT MUSIC, has pledged $1.4 cardinal successful backing for younker programs and planetary consciousness campaigns aimed astatine breaking down stigmas surrounding intelligence health.

News of the UNICEF concern comes arsenic TXT is gearing up to adjacent retired its North American tour. In July, the set released The Star Chapter: Together, debuting astatine No. 3 connected the Billboard 200.

Watch a video of SOOBIN’s code astatine the UNICEF kickoff lawsuit below.