Dixon Chibanda
Zimbabwean creates Grannies on Friendship Bench project to handle mental health issues, it is now being adopted in U.S.
The Friendship Bench project was started by psychiatric professor Dixon Chibanda. He started the project in 2006 to position elderly people at the heart of a locally developed mental health therapy program in Zimbabwe. Under the project, he places elderly individuals on benches in private, calm areas of community clinics, some churches, impoverished neighborhoods, and…
