Our history.
-The Samaritans was founded in 1953 in the great city of London, England. The charity was founded by a Vicar named Chad Varah. Varah started out by giving chairty to members of his church counselling work. However he wanted to move onto bigger things and help people contenplating suicideon a larger scale.
-Varah was especially inspired to start his support work after a 14 year old girl took her life after starting her period and believing it to be a sexually transmitted disease. Varah did not want life to be wasted like that again.