"One thing that repeatedly gets misrepresented in the media is ..." Correction to previous blog post

A representative of  "The Friendship Bench" has mailed me this very relevant correction to the description in the blog post: 

"One thing that repeatedly gets misrepresented in the media is that this is of course not Dixon Chibanda’s work alone. 

As much as we tell journalists the real story, they still choose to write whatever they want (and what they think their readers want to read). 

We are a team and without the team, the Bench would not be anywhere near where it is now. Some of us have been working with Friendship Bench since its beginning. 

And what is really important too is that there is a peer led group support that follows the problem solving therapy on the bench. 

That is where Zeebags are being made as an income generation component which is really important in this very difficult economic situation.

If you want, you could just send us any question that you might have and we can answer them and then you would be one of the people whose website actually reflects what is really happening on the ground!

Thanks, 

Ruth

Dr. Ruth Verhey PhD

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Friendship Bench

www.friendshipbenchzimbabwe.org "

This text is now included in the blog post in English as well as Danish:

”Everyone, everywhere should have someone to turn to in support of their mental health”

The Zimbabwean organization, Friendship Bench, now trains hundreds of  grandmothers in problem-solving therapy, role-playing and behaviour activation. Their therapy sessions take place outside, on wooden seats known as Friendship Benches.

        

Friendship Bench are now expanding to other countries.

“My dream is to take this to scale” the founder Dr. Chibanda says, “With something simple, we make a difference in the world”


See the English version of the full article at
https://teachglobalcitizenship2.blogspot.com/2019/02/everyone-everywhere-should-have-someone.html

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