麻豆社

Depression is one of the major mental health challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. And while often it is treated with drugs, many believe that community involvement and talking therapies can help break through the isolation and hopelessness many depressed people experience. In Zimbabwe a unique project called the 'The Friendship Bench', which is a network of community health workers, volunteers and psychiatrists, has helped many thousands of people. The 麻豆社's Brian Hungwe went along to see how it works. First he met one of their former clients Chipo (not her real name), a mother of five, who explains how she went into depression as her marriage fell apart.