The friendship bench | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00With suicide rates so high, the trauma in Zimbabwe was so obvious even the

00:19government became aware that it was a serious problem. As one of the very few

00:25psychiatrists in the country, I was told do something about it. Do something about

00:32it but there's no money and you can't use any of the buildings. There's just no

00:38room. There's already too many people coming to the clinics to get care. And I

00:44was also told I can't work with the nurses because the nurses are busy taking

00:50care of people who are HIV-positive, taking care of pregnant women.

00:57There were a bunch of grandmothers that worked at the clinics. They used to

01:02provide HIV awareness to the population. And I was told you can have these 14

01:10grandmothers. They said, there's no one else.

01:18Naturally, I was skeptical. And there was resistance from a lot of my colleagues,

01:24doctors, psychiatrists. This would not work. The first grandmother I interacted with,

01:31he kept saying this is just not going to work. It's impossible to train a

01:35grandmother with minimal education to provide basic cognitive behavioral therapy.

01:42But there was no harm in trying it. I had nothing else.

01:53It was with the first group of Gogos that we started what we called the Friendship Bench.

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02:13Yes.

02:14しかAlso is not going to work.