For the next three years, Murray Mandel will be living and breathing Lifeline.
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The Sydney man, who has been deaf since birth, began his trip raising money for the charity on March 6 and will loop anticlockwise around the country, finishing back in Canberra in 2020.
“What money comes in is not my concern, my goal is to reach out to as many people as possible about the importance of Lifeline,” he said.
“I retired as a hospital microbiologist and decided I would do classical guitar street performing for a charitable organisation.
“In four weeks, a number of young people have come to me and expressed their personal problems, and I told them all to call 13 11 14.
“It’s a project that’s never happened before in Australia and to me, it’s a privilege.”