Africa Eye

The Friendship Bench (2025x11)

Air date: Sep 28, 2025

With no resources or trained staff, Dr. Dixon Chibanda, one of a handful of psychiatrists in Zimbabwe, and Professor of Global Mental Health at Kings College London, aims to help solve the country’s mental health crisis. A group of grandmothers are trained in behavioural therapy and sit on wooden benches counselling community members on common mental disorders such as anxiety and depression.