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Love what the trainees are showing in Lupane with the Matabeleland team!

#MentalHealth🇿🇼 #Community

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When Friendship Bench grandmothers have grandchildren to babysit, trainers take on new positions during role plays 😁

Meet @Silindy4, Trainer, Implementation Manager, Babysitter👩‍🦲

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#TuesdayTeamCKT presentation from Mash East 🙌

⭐️ The Grandmothers, @gamuchapoterera, Ruth, Sandy and Onismus have formed and provided starter packs to 29 new Circle Kubatana Tose groups and reached 386 clients through them in Mash East through Q2!

#MentalHealthForAll🇿🇼 #CKT

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Latest group of Grandmother's! Completed 8 days of problem-solving therapy (PST) training in Gwanda, will start working in their respective communities tomorrow 👏

See you all in 30 days to review!

#MentalHealth #Zimbabwe

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Meeting at Muzimuni ward, Gwanda with Chief Muzimuni for a sensitization session.

When everyone is on board for community based mental heath care... our 💛's are full 🇿🇼

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EVERYDAY is a good day to loosen up our joints & warm up in the winter chill with the Grandmothers 😄🇿🇼 @Silindy4

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Rural Gwanda sensitization session.

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Visiting Chief Nhlamba's homestead in rural Gwanda to talk to the community leaders about Friendship Bench & our work with the village health grandmothers in enhancing mental wellbeing for all in the community 🇿🇼💛

#Gatekeepers #Community #MentalHealth

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Giving Grandmothers the floor for training in Gwanda.

Building confidence and developing presentation skills for future trainings in the Training of Trainers Model for Friendship Bench scale up.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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25 Grandmothers in Matabeleland who have just finished 8 days of the Friendship Bench training sit down to give an anonymous evaluation of the process.

Successful programmes are created in collaboration, every voice matters 💛

#ProgrammeEvaluation #MentalHealthTraining

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Jesca & @Silindy4 meeting with the District Administrator & District Nursing Officer of Gwanda in Mat South to plan the sensitization session which will lead to taking Friendship Bench into Gwanda Rural ☀️

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Sensitization with nurses in Gwanda 😌

Referal systems don't always simply exist, so we start creating them in new areas. Nurses offer crucial support to both community health workers and clients if needed. Always grateful for their community insights 💚 #TogetherForMH🇿🇼

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... to assign @Silindy4 to new post as official Water Pumper from now and henceforth 🙌💦

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📻🎛 Tune in, listen up!

@ZiFMStereo #Xhale
Topic: Men & Depression

📍 Today! 15 April
⏰ 10.30 - 11.00 hrs

@tatendaGTM & @Silindy4

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Last group of Friendship Bench community health workers in Bulawayo trained and off to do 30 days primary health care experience before graduation!

Connecting with empathy to all who need evidence based mental health care 🇿🇼💛

Hands up for these Grandmothers 🙌🏾

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Empower employees 🙌

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Super turn out of stakeholders in Marondera for the Friendship Bench senzitization meeting! A passionate and caring community, coming together to open access to evidence-based mental health care at community level.

#MentalHealthForAll🇿🇼

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Silindweyinkosi presenting to Deloitte and Touche Bulawayo on the need for employee work-life balance to prevent chronic anxiety, burnout and depression, and to enhance mental wellbeing.

Thank you for having us at your Wellness Day #DeloitteAndTouche!

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And it's official 🎉 Friendship Bench Bulawayo is here! Ready to sit, listen, empathise, problem solve and heal with our community.

#WeAreSmiling #MentalHealthForAll