Grandmas exorcise ‘mental demons’ through friendship benches

TEARS flowed freely down Jamia’s face and still she kept talking, wiping them furiously with the palm of her right hand.

Words tumbled out of her mouth, jumbled up and filled with raw emotion but the older woman sitting across from her on a wooden bench nodded encouragingly.

Jamia recounted the horrific torture at the hands of her husband, whom she said beat her up, burnt her backside with cigarette stubs and pulled her hair out without flinching.

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