# Samaritans anticipate flood of e-mails

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/01/05/samaritans-anticipate-flood-emails/
- Published: 2001-01-05T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Samaritans were one of the first UK charities to integrate the Internet not
with their fundraising but with their service provision, offering e-mail counselling
back in 1994. By last year the charity was receiving 100 e-mail requests a week.
Indeed, the Samaritans receive more e-mail than telephone messages from people feeling
suicidal. The New Year, often a depressing time for many people, is expected to 
yield a flood of e-mails to the charity.

Read Samaritans braced for flood of post-holiday emails by Nicola Hill at SocietyGuardian.

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