{"product_id":"friendship-bench-zimbabwe","title":"FRIENDSHIP BENCH ZIMBABWE","description":"\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMental Health Care Delivered on a Wooden Park Bench.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFriendship Bench Zimbabwe trains ordinary community members — many of them grandmothers — to deliver evidence-based talk therapy from wooden benches placed in discreet, safe corners of the community. It sounds almost too simple to work, but it's backed by over a decade of rigorous research, including a landmark randomised clinical trial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The mission is direct: get people out of \u003cem\u003ekufungisisa\u003c\/em\u003e — \"thinking too much,\" the Shona term for the depression and anxiety so many Zimbabweans quietly carry — and build a Zimbabwe where a Friendship Bench sits within walking distance of everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFriendship Bench Zimbabwe is reimagining what mental healthcare can look like in a country with almost no psychiatrists to go around. Instead of clinics and consulting rooms, its \"treatment\" happens on a simple wooden park bench, sat with by a trained grandmother, in the shade of a tree, in the heart of the community. What began as one psychiatrist's small experiment in Harare has grown into a nationally embedded model that has now supported over a million people, and is being adopted by governments around the world. Fonseca connects Harare businesses and donors to a solution that is homegrown, rigorously evidenced, and built to last well beyond any single funding cycle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FRIENDSHIP BENCH ZIMBABWE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45849098453039,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/6661\/7391\/files\/FB1.jpg?v=1787221760","url":"https:\/\/fonseca-agency.com\/products\/friendship-bench-zimbabwe","provider":"Fonseca","version":"1.0","type":"link"}