Kufungisisa

Therapy on a bench: the grandmas beating mental illness in Harare – video
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reshared_by_ZCN -
14th April 2017

the guardian
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One in four people in Zimbabwe experiences mental health problems but there are only 13 psychiatrists in the country. To help plug the gap, Dixon Chibanda has developed a scheme to train an army of grandmothers, who offer a listening ear on park benches. The scheme challenges the stigma surrounding mental health and provides the women with company

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