Grandmothers Help Treat Depression
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Grandmothers Help Treat Depression

Dixon Chibanda is a psychiatrist in Zimbabwe, one of only 12 such doctors for a population of more than 14 million people. Mental health problems in that destitute country are rampant, and a significant percentage of them can be summed up in one word: kufungisisa. In Shona, Zimbabwe’s official language, the word covers brooding, anxiety, depression and panic attacks, and its literal meaning is “thinking too much.”

Down Trouble Street

Down Trouble Street

Artful Eye photograph and poem.

Burro Train
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Burro Train

Artful Eye