The Friendship Bench: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution
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“Dixon Chibanda’s beautiful and heroic book will inspire everyone who reads it.”
— Johann Hari
2025 BookPal OWL Award Winner • As featured on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR’s Here and Now
A simple, human solution for loneliness and depression
When Dr. Dixon Chibanda lost a patient to suicide, he began a soulsearching journey that eventually led to a mental healthcare revolution. As one of only six psychiatrists in all of Zimbabwe, a country traumatized by decades of conflict, Chibanda quick...
— Johann Hari
2025 BookPal OWL Award Winner • As featured on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR’s Here and Now
A simple, human solution for loneliness and depression
When Dr. Dixon Chibanda lost a patient to suicide, he began a soulsearching journey that eventually led to a mental healthcare revolution. As one of only six psychiatrists in all of Zimbabwe, a country traumatized by decades of conflict, Chibanda quick...


