Two women in Zimbabwe have decided to combat the economic conditions in the country with a good laugh.
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Shilpa Shah and Celina Stockill believe they will help people cope with the strains of Zimbabwean life.
They recently held workshops at the Harare International Festival of the Arts, with a range of exercises to encourage good hearty laughter.
"If you laugh - you change; and when you change - the world changes," said laughter trainer Ms Shah.
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At their workshops, Ms Shah and Ms Stockhill encourage people to hold hands, make funny faces at each other and lie on the floor and kick their legs in the air.
They also ask them to pull their empty pockets out to laugh at each other's lack of cash, and to point and laugh at themselves.
"We need to laugh more, especially in our situation in Zimbabwe - being poor, you've got to learn to laugh," said one man at a recent workshop.
There's something odd and inspiring about this.
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