Community

A community garden and restaurant are mobilising residents to support social development and healthier lifestyles in Tingbjerg, a socially deprived neighbourhood in Copenhagen.

Last year we learned that Gladsaxe, a municipality in the Copenhagen suburbs (pop 70,000, home to NN HQ), had reported a remarkable reduction in the share of school children with overweight from 26% to 16% over a decade.

By growing healthy food and bringing the community closer to the food that they eat, community gardens in Madrid contribute to health promotion, build confidence and interpersonal relationships among participants, and promote better environmental awareness.

The Empowering Communities programme enlists the help of trained local community champions to raise diabetes awareness in harder-to-reach communities.

Professional sports clubs help deliver type 2 diabetes prevention programmes to at-risk communities who might find it difficult to engage with existing health services.

The Faith & Diabetes programme seeks to empower diverse communities of faith in Houston to better understand and address diabetes awareness, prevention, and management with particular attention to religious belief, practice and community life.

Munich - The Cycling Without Age initiative

The Cycling Without Age initiative helps to tackle the overlooked risk factor of loneliness and isolation for the elderly and people living with and vulnerable to developing diabetes in Munich. 

Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes is a long-term community intervention initiative to promote health and prevent diabetes in the neighbourhood of Tingbjerg in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a place-based approach that includes coordinated interventions driven by a variety of stakeholders across everyday settings.

Amsterdam’s approach to healthy weight mainstreams a major food system challenge throughout the whole city government.