The Caribbean Healthy Lifestyle Programme (C-HLP) is a “for youth by youth” initiative that involves youth in the planning and delivery of a leadership-training programme. It demonstrates how sport can be used as a vehicle to develop and change lives in a holistic manner. It also focuses on educating youth in specific areas that are relevant to their day-to-day existence and to their success in today’s society.
This programme combines sports along with personal development and instills a value of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, along with fostering leadership capacity among the youth.
At firstly, it evolved around three focus areas: youth, girls and women in sport and leadership, which began in Jamaica at the Caribbean under 16 Netball Tournament and continued this way until in 2003, the first group of male participants and athletes from other sporting disciplines, were introduced into the programme. Currently C-HLP has clubs established in ten (10) Caribbean countries.
C-HLP Club Socalm Trinidad and Tobago, is the newest club to join the C-HLP family, which was officially launched on January 31, 2010 and has approximately fifteen (15) members. This year the club is given the privilege to host the other clubs at the annual conference in August of this year
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