Dixon Chibanda is one of 12 psychiatrists in Zimbabwe -for a population of more than 16 million. Realizing that his country would never be able to scale traditional methods of treating those with mental health issues, Chibanda helped to develop a beautiful solution powered by a limitless resource: grandmothers. In this extraordinary, inspirational talk, learn more about the friendship bench program, which trains grandmothers in evidence-based talk therapy and brings care, and hope, to those in need.
Coming from Zimbabwe and being able to see that people here are in need of help that they are not able to get or afford. So when hearing about this I felt comfort, that even though this is not fixing the problem, it is giving more people the opportunity to be heard and to seek the help they need.
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