Looking back at 2024

We started a research project called 'Stories of Fat Bodies,' which has now grown to include 9 languages. Together with our colleagues at Body Liberation Network, we plan to collect much more data by the end of 2025 and prepare our first report. Read more here.

We prepared an article about the first research results for CIRCE and presented it to creative industry representatives from all over Europe in the autumn. Read more here.

We conducted training for European youth workers in Alicante and became sure that the topic we are working on is very relevant. Read more here.

We started two Erasmus+ projects - Microlearning for Body Liberation and EQ Cultivate, which we will continue this year.

We submitted a project application to the SIF NGO Fund, which was approved and started on January 1st. By the end of September, we will publish a research report, a podcast, and organize an online campaign about weight stigma in Latvia. Read more here.

We started a collaboration with NAAFA (National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance) with the goal of meeting in person this year - we plan to submit a project to invite the executive director of this oldest fat acceptance movement organization in the world to Latvia in September.

We are particularly proud of our advocacy achievements. We have succeeded in getting the significance of weight stigma recognized and including it in the 'Action Plan to Reduce the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity 2025-2029' - we will tell you more about it soon, but weight stigma/stigmatization is now mentioned 32 times in the plan (before our recommendations, it was not mentioned in the plan), and activities for educating medical staff and parents, as well as support measures for people who suffer from weight stigma, are also included. Read more here.

What are our plans for 2025?

In addition to the plans mentioned above, this year we want to tell as many people as possible about weight stigma and fatphobia - we will organize a conversation at the Lampa festival, an open event for NGO and other organization representatives about potential solutions, and participate in international events such as the International Weight Stigma Conference and others as much as possible. We will publish educational articles on our website and collaborate with other organizations to include the topic in various contexts in the youth and medical fields.

One of our most important goals for this year is to start an online support group for fat people and build a local community. This will help us address this issue on a larger scale in a sustainable way.

Despite facing various challenges, we were able to start and complete a number of activities last year that will, in the long term, grow and strengthen the significance of the fat acceptance movement in Latvia and Europe.

In the new year, we will build upon the achievements we have already made and plan to reach a wider audience, establishing the use of Latvian language terms that currently still sound quite unfamiliar.

What have we done? Here's a brief summary with notes about our plans for this year!

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