{"id":2088,"date":"2020-03-02T16:20:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2020-07-06T17:35:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T17:35:36","slug":"samaritans-speak-at-rotary-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/02\/samaritans-speak-at-rotary-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Samaritans speak at Rotary meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two members of the Pembrokeshire\nbranch of The Samaritans. Helen Williams and Sue Oldreive spoke about the work\nSamaritans do locally and throughout the UK and ROI to Club members last\nweek.  Each year\nin Wales some 360 people die by suicide; this is around 3 times the number\nkilled in road accidents. Men are three times more likely than women to\ndie by suicide. Suicide is also, tragically, the biggest killer of young people\naged 20-34. Suicide is not equal\u2014 if you are less well-off and male you are 10\ntimes more likely to die by suicide than more well-off men. For some, Helen\nexplained, suicide can seem like the only option. It\u2019s a complex issue. Behind\nthe statistics are individuals, each with their own unique story. Every suicide\nhas a devastating impact on the person\u2019s family, friends, colleagues and\ncommunity. By providing emotional support, Samaritans volunteers are making an\nimportant contribution to suicide prevention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen and Sue were keen to emphasise\nthat The Samaritans call lines and email service are not only for people who\nfeel suicidal. 24\/7, 365 days of the year.  \nSamaritans are there for anyone who is feeling down and needs to talk\nand Samaritans also work in their community offering third sector information days,\narmy liaison events, support to schools and \ncolleges, and coffee mornings.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They emphasised that The Samaritans\nis run almost entirely by volunteers. As well as Listening Volunteers, Branch\nmembers run all their administration including the work of the Treasurer. Pembrokeshire\nare currently recruiting for new volunteers who will receive free training,\nwhich is highly thought of both within and outside the organisation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit www.samaritans.org\/wales\/support-us\/volunteer\/<\/a>\nto find out more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen and Sue were thanked by President Gavin Lloyd for giving up their time and giving such and interesting and informative insight into the work of the Samaritans. The evening had been arranged by Rotarian Malcolm Lowless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two members of the Pembrokeshire branch of The Samaritans. Helen Williams and Sue Oldreive spoke about the work Samaritans do locally and throughout the UK and ROI to Club members last week.  Each year in Wales some 360 people die by suicide; this is around 3 times the number killed in road accidents. Men are … Continue reading “Samaritans speak at Rotary meeting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pembrokerotary.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}