‘Friendship Bench’ program proves effective at alleviating mental illness symptoms

We need innovations like the Friendship Bench to flip the gap and go from 10 percent of people receiving treatment, to 90 percent of people receiving treatment. TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, December 27, 2016 / EINPresswire.com / — Their offices are simple wooden seats, called Friendship Benches, located in the grounds of health clinics around Harare and other major cities in Zimbabwe.