We were delighted to e-attend the Healthy Caribbean Coalition’s Civil Society Action Team’s inaugural meeting on 20th April .  The main objective of the action team is to ensure that the Caribbean public becomes aware of the challenges of childhood obesity and supports the call for policy changes and other educational approaches that will create a supportive environment for the reduction of this growing problem which places children at risk of developing diabetes and hypertension as well as  cancer and heart disease in their adult life

During this inaugural meeting of the action team, the HCC shared its communication plan for their childhood obesity prevention petition and discussed ways in which organisations could play a part in their local area. This included liaising with the media and encouraging  members, corporate partners and other social and parenting groups to sign the petition at www.toomuchjunk.org.

This was a really interesting meeting and we were delighted to meet representatives from a number of Caribbean organisations and we look forward to implementing the ideas discussed in the meeting in our local area here in St Kitts.