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Creating safe spaces to talk ,

sharE lived experiences and connect people to support.

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                                                                                   project is an evidence-based intervention developed in Zimbabwe to bridge the mental health treatment gap. Our mission is to enhance mental well-being and improve quality of life through the use of problem solving therapy delivered by trained lay health workers. We focus on people who are suffering from common mental disorders, such as anxiety and depression- known locally as kufungisisa (THINKING TOO MUCH).

We are not conventional; our therapy rooms are outdoors under trees & our therapists are elderly Zimbabwean women. These women are city lay health workers who have become known as "community grandmothers". 

FACTS

• 1 in 4 people suffer from depression and anxiety in Zimbabwe

• There are 10 psychiatrists serving a population of 13 mln Zimbabweans

• 70% of Zimbabwean's live below the poverty line

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 “We used to talk a lot, ‘Do this, do     that’. But now we ask them to open  up, open their minds and hearts,”     Sheba Khumalo, lay health worker.

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