TIMES magazine

JANUARY 23, 2019

How Zimbabwe's grandmothers are turning the tide on mental health- World Economic Forum 2019

YouTube - VIDEO 

FEBRUARY 11,  2019

Davos 2019, training grandmothers to treat depression in Zimbabwe, Dr. Dixon Chibanda

Fast Company

APRIL 5,  2019

How a wooden bench in Zimbabwe is starting a revolution in mental health

GMHPN

JUNE,  2019

WHO technical briefing on mental health

WELLNESS

AUGUST 5,  2019

How city benches are encouraging conversations about mental health

Weforumn.org

AUGUST 13,  2019

This 'Friendship Bench' is improving mental health for Zimbabweans

BBC World Service

OCTOBER 11,  2019

Dixon Chibanda: How Can A Team Of Grandmothers Make Therapy Accessible To All?

NDR, German News

OCTOBER 15 ,  2019

Zimbabwe Grandmothers as Psychologists

Alan J Flisher Memorial Lecture

NOVEMBER 5 ,  2019

The Journey of the Friendship Bench - A move from research to implementation by Dixon Chibanda.

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Bloomberg - VIDEO

JANUARY 23,  2019

Grandmas to be therapists using a locally-built wooden chair. Welcome to the Friendship Bench 

Borgen Project

MARCH 8,  2019

Mental health is something that is often easy to overlook, especially if you come from a low-income...

The Guardian 

APRIL 30,  2019

Busting the myth that depression doesn't affect people in poor countries

New York Times

JULY 22,  2019

DEPRESSED? Here's a Bench. Talk to me

ABC NEWS

AUGUST 5,  2019

How city benches are encouraging conversations about mental health

Falling Walls

SEPTEMBER 4,  2019

DEPRESSION? WHY NOT SIT DOWN WITH A GRANDMOTHER?

7d NEWS

OCTOBER 12,  2019

Witchcraft Blamed for Mental Health Disorders

Get Together

OCTOBER 17,  2019

Bringing Grandmothers together in Zimbabwe to listen to those in need

weforum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In Zimbabwe, the term for depression is kufungisisa, which translates to “thinking too much.”

The Economist

MARCH 16,  2019

What disease reveals about mental health care; Talk is cheep.

Oxfam Blogs

MAY 23,  2019

FROM POVERTY TO POWER; The journey of making mental health a development priority

Rockefeller Found.

MARCH 16,  2019

Availability of mental health care is #Solvable

Rotary Silicon V.

AUGUST 13,  2019

The Friendship Bench: Bringing mental health to communities

BBC World Service

OCTOBER 10,  2019

The Friendship Bench: Bringing mental health to communities)

LSHTM

OCTOBER ,  2019

Mental health care for all: how community-led innovations are taking root

CONKER SISTERS

NOVEMBER 1 ,  2019

Article write up on the Friendship Bench by Dr. Ruth Verhey

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In the early 2000s, Zimbabwe had to get creative to treat depression, now it's spreading far and wide.

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Zimbabwe is pioneering a groundbreaking mental health programme with stunning results!

OCTOBER 24, 2018

A “Friendship Bench” in Zimbabwe is changing the way we think—and talk—about depression

MARCH/ APRIL 2018

Low-cost mental health innovation enables access to care in Africa, US

JANUARY 11, 2018

I have seen first-hand how the horrors of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe haunt our people

JANUARY 10, 2018

Curbside counselling? These 'friendship benches' bring mental health closer to home

VOA NEWS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Zimbabwe Tackles Mental

Health With 'Friendship

Benches'

HERALD ZIMBABWE

JANUARY 31, 2017

Friendship benches: 

Making depression

lighter

ALJAZEERA

MARCH 14, 2017

How grandmothers help fight depression in Zimbabwe

THE GUARDIAN

APRIL 14, 2017

Harare's park bench grandmas: 'I speak to them and feel a load is lifted off my heart'

NEWS DEEPLY

NOVEMBER 03, 2017

In Zimbabwe, 

‘Grandmothers’ on Benches

Help Fight Depression

NDEPI

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Using Friendship for ZIMBABWE'S Mental Health

VOA NEWS

JANUARY 04, 2017

Zimbabwe’s 'Friendship Bench' Offers Blueprint for Mental Health Treatment Across Africa

NPR

JANUARY 10, 2017

The Friendship Bench

Can Help Chase The

Blues Away

SCIENCE DAILY

DECEMBER 29, 2016

'Friendship Bench' program proves effective at alleviating mental illness symptoms

SOURCE ARTICLE

APLUS

JANUARY 2, 2016

People In Zimbabwe Are Using Friendship Benches To Improve Their MH — And It's Working

SOURCE ARTICLE

SCI DEV

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Bench talk boosts mental health in

Zimbabwe

SOURCE ARTICLE

KINGS COLLEGE 

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Friendship Bench therapy reduces anxiety and depression in

Zimbabwe

SOURCE ARTICLE

LSHTM

DECEMBER 27, 2016

'Friendship Bench' therapy significantly reduced anxiety and depression in Zimbabwe

SOURCE ARTICLE

MEDICAL DAILY

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Are ‘Friendship Benches’ The Cure For Depression, Anxiety In Poor Countries?

SOURCE ARTICLE

UPWORTHY

DECEMBER 30, 2016

With only 10 psychiatrists. That's where 'professional grandmothers' come in.

SOURCE ARTICLE