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Greenland's teenage boxers throwing punches to survive
Greenland faces a youth suicide epidemic linked to intergenerational trauma and displacement; boxing provides structure and mental relief for many teens, with suicide causing 7.4% of deaths in 2023.
- In Nuuk, Greenland, teenagers train at boxing gyms under coach Philippe Andersen, using sessions as an outlet amid an 'epidemic' hitting young people.
- When Denmark launched a major urbanisation drive in the 1970s, Inuit families were moved into town apartment blocks, disrupting hunting livelihoods and causing trauma that sent suicide rates soaring in the 1980s, The Lancet reports.
- Close family losses help explain why William and Kian gravitate to boxing; William said 'Not so long ago, two of my friends committed suicide.'
- Coach Philippe Andersen says discipline and pre-fight abstinence give youths relief, while William will leave for Denmark this summer and Kian hopes to join Denmark's national boxing team.
- Limited local services and language shortages leave many isolated, while Greenland authorities have strengthened helplines and decentralised training, yet most consultations remain online and suicide accounted for 7.4 percent of deaths in 2023, The Lancet reports.
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In 2023, suicide accounted for 7.4 per cent of the Danish island's mortality, which had one of the highest rates in the world.
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Greenland's teenage boxers throwing punches to survive
When the bell rang, William let out a cry drowned out by the crowd: that night, the Greenlandic teen was boxing for his mother, who killed herself two years ago.
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