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UnLearning Children Foundation to commemorate World Suicide Prevention Day in Gauteng [SOUND]

# In commemoration of World Suicide Prevention Day, The UnLearning Children Foundation will host a candle lighting ceremony on Johannesburg’s Nelson Mandela Bridge this evening. According to the World Health Organisation, suicide is a major public health challenge, claiming the lives of more than 720-thousand people every year. The foundation’s chairperson, Zanele Njapha, says the event will honour lives lost to suicide and raise awareness of suicide prevention:

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