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Busy New Year for the Samaritans in ALL of Spain
The Samaritans organisation offers emotional support to those in distress with a 24 hour service every day of the year. During 2015 the Samaritans in Spain dealt with over 800 callers to the service, an increase of 23% over the previous year, and part of this was accounted for by an increase in the number of emails they received.
Calls and emails are received from English speakers of all nationalities from the whole of mainland Spain and the islands. Calls to the 900 525 100 helpline are FREE. They have also continued to operate a drop in centre at both Punta Prima (Torrevieja) and the British Embassy in Madrid. Additionally they operate a prison visiting service once a month in Alicante. For more info visit
www.samaritansinspain.com.
CEO Lynda Brettle comments that it is “a great credit to all the dedicated and loyal volunteers who are both listeners and charity shop workers that we have been able to cope with the increased call rate during
the year. We now have a fundraising group “Friends of Samaritans” who organise events for us and are also most grateful to the many supporters who help us who are listed on our website - and we will always welcome more!”
Peter Higginson, Managing Director of the Global Car Centre Group S.L. one of the sponsors of Samaritans in Spain explains the reason he backs the Samaritans service “...... I have found by employing many people over the last 39 years that a pair of ears is a great gift if you use them properly. By listening to people and letting them get things of their chest, most people feel better for having spoken. Advice sometimes can be good but plain old listening is better, be it on the end of a phone or in person”.
Recruitment Samaritans in Spain’s General Manager Stephen Baker says “We are starting the year with a bumper increase in people looking to volunteer and who will undergo training shortly at the Punta Prima Centre. Our next project is to establish a call centre in the Gran Alacant/Alicante area and later in 2016 we hope to build listening teams on Costa Blanca North (Javea) and the Costa Cálida (Mazarrón). Readers in any of those areas who are interested to learn more are asked please in the first instance to contact me for an informal, no-obligation, chat”. Email General Manager
stephenrbaker@outlook.com.
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