Turn Their Miles Into Healing for War-Affected Families
Team Tutapona is Full - But You Can Still Make Every Mile Matter
Our charity bibs for the 2026 ASICS Los Angeles Marathon are officially filled - and we are so grateful for this incredible team of runners stepping up to bring healing and hope.
But the story doesn’t end here.
You can still be part of this journey by supporting a Team Tutapona runner.
Every donation helps provide mental health care for children and families living with the trauma of war, displacement, and loss. While our runners take on the miles, you help turn their effort into real, life-changing impact.
Because of supporters like you:
• Children learn how to regulate fear and anxiety
• Parents rediscover hope and resilience
• Families begin to heal together
The LA Marathon may be the challenge on race day - but healing is the greater finish line.
Support a runner today and help transform miles into healing.
Your Impact
Every $300 raised provides a refugee or survivor of war with a two-week trauma recovery program - offering counseling, emotional support, and tools for hope and healing.
Support a runner - change a life!
Why is Tutapona’s work so important?
Tutapona exists to provide mental health support to some of the world’s most war-affected communities. We do this through group programming and individual support sessions delivered by all local staff in each programming location.
Since we began this work 17 years ago, over 120,000 men, women, and children from the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Iraq, Syria, Uganda, and now Ukraine have found the courage, resilience, and strength to begin moving forward. Children see futures ahead of them. Families experience restoration. Communities are living in peace. And hope is growing.