RunNING for Refugee Mental Health with Team Tutapona!
Be part of something bigger than a race. When you support a runner on Team Tutapona in the 2025 Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon or 10 Mile, you’re helping bring healing and hope to children and adults who have lived through the trauma of war and displacement.
The Twin Cities Marathon is celebrated as The Most Beautiful Urban Marathon in America, with scenic lakes, tree-lined parkways, and thousands of cheering fans lining the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Whether runners are taking on the full 26.2 miles or the 10 Mile, they’re pushing themselves for a cause far greater than the finish line.
By backing Team Tutapona, you’re turning their miles into life-changing impact. Just $300 provides a refugee or conflict survivor with a two-week mental health program - offering counseling, life skills, and safe, guided support to process trauma and rebuild resilience.
✨ Sponsor a runner.
✨ Sponsor a life.
Together, we can transform endurance into healing.
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 77,000 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.