50/50 Phone A Friend
About Us
The 50/50 Phone A Friend organisation was launched in response to the growing problem of suicide in our country both locally and nationally. In 2010 twenty one people died from suicide in the south Mayo area, nationally in 2009 the figure was five hundred twenty seven with over twelve thousand attempts at suicide. That equates to one person attempting suicide every forty minutes. These figures do not include undetermined deaths which would most likely make the true death by suicide considerably higher. There is not a community in Ireland that has not been visited by the terrible tragedy of suicide.
It is from this back drop that the 50/50 Phone A Friend organisation was set up in Westport, County Mayo on January 2011, by a group of people from the local community who either in the course of their work or through their community involvement, have experienced first hand the tragic impact of suicide on families and communities.