BBC Africa Eye share their new documentary, “The Friendship Bench”.
A bench and neighborhood grandmothers bridge the hole in psychological well being care in Zimbabwe.
With no assets or educated workers, Dr. Dixon Chibanda, one in all a handful of psychiatrists in Zimbabwe, and Professor of World Psychological Well being at Kings Faculty London, goals to assist resolve the nation’s psychological well being disaster.
A bunch of grandmothers are educated in behavioral remedy and sit on wood benches counselling neighborhood members on widespread psychological issues corresponding to nervousness and melancholy.
- [00:00] Rising from Africa
- [02:30] Each psychiatrist’s worst nightmare
- [04:54] “In a rustic of 16 million, I’m one in all solely 12 psychiatrists.”
- [05:30] Zimbabwe’s layers of trauma
- [10:40] “The grandmothers can assist”
- [13:10] 89-year-old Gogo Hwiza can assist resolve your issues
- [13:45] Psychological well being care is greatest delivered by those that reside in communities
- [14:40] The start of the Friendship Bench
- [15:00] ‘My coronary heart desires to assist’
- [18:25] Kufungisa: Pondering Too A lot
- [29:00] Authorities’s strategic plan for higher psychological well being
- [30:40] We may have over 2,000 grandmothers counselling
- [31:40] The bicycle answer
- [35:50] Celebrating successful a case and maintaining a house
- [36:40] Most males are cautious of a girl counsellor
- [40:00] Discriminating in opposition to you
- [43:50] Proud to be a Gogo (grandmother) counsellor
- [44:00] Melancholy is a number one reason for incapacity on this planet
- [47:25] “Perhaps I can retire after I expire”
- [47:50] “The grandmothers are one of the best factor to occur to me as a psychiatrist.”
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