Helping hand in schools can save lives The report by the Child Fatality Review Panel ("More Hong Kong children commit suicide than die in accidents, study reveals", July 10) is at once dreadful news and yet not totally surprising to us at the Samaritan Suicide Prevention Hotline. In our youth outreach programme to teenagers in Hong Kong, more than half of our participants have known someone who has self-harmed or thought about suicide. Very often peers, rather than parents or teachers, are the first ones troubled teens would turn to. It has led our organisation to reach out to those places that parents, and even teachers, cannot see: the schoolyard. When Hong Kong's schools consent to it, we...
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