With the Friendship Bench, 'community grandmothers' are helping support those living with depression and anxiety.
In Zimbabwe, where mental-health care providers are a rarity, a group of older women fondly referred to as “community grandmothers” is filling the treatment gap. Trained by doctors in talk therapy through an organization called the Friendship Bench, these women invite neighbors to meet with them on their benches outdoors, under trees, rather than in traditional offices.
Ruth Verhey, who has been working with the team since 2006, says most visitors to friendship benches were unaware of how mental-health issues were negatively impacting them before these volunteers started reaching out. “People were avoiding opening up and didn’t know what they experienced was kufungisisa,” she says. Going forward, Verhey says she “hopes people will understand that it is easy and important to talk to each other.
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