Unique Friendship Benches Initiative Inaugurated to Promote Mental Health, Featuring Competing FIFA World Cup Nations
Daily Rendezvous 32 benches – representing each participating FIFA World Cup nation – are being built to promote mental health Benches announcement coincides with today’s World Mental Health Day and symbolic inauguration event at 974 Stadium, Doha H.E. Sheikha Hind and Sir Mo Farah unveiled England bench during World Innovation Summit for Health 10 October 2022 – Doha: A unique project involving custom-made public benches to promote the critical importance of mental health, and the role that football and sport more broadly can play to promote mental wellbeing, was announced today. Thirty-two “Friendship Benches” – one for each nation competing in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ – are being built for installation in prominent Doha locations, including the precincts of tournament stadiums. The project is part of the Sport for Health partnership , led by the World Health Organization and Qatar’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH). Its goal is to demonstrate ...