HARARE – Friendship Benches — located in the grounds of health clinics around Harare and in Gweru and Chitungwiza — are helping patients with depression or anxiety with problem-solving therapy. The practitioners, who operate from simple wooden seats, are lay health workers known as “Community Grandmothers,” or “Mbuya Utano”, trained to listen to and support…
‘Friendship Bench’ tackles Zim’s mental health crisis
