First trip to Barbados - September 1999
To quote these two wardens
and 'Reggie' on a south coast beach

"We need these books here in Barbados - when and how can we get them?"

On this first trip.

This trip was meant to be a holiday - but Helen just wondered if there might be interest here for her books - since the Caribbean HIV statistics were already escalating and the rest of the world seemed to be concentrating on South Africa - and being Helen, she decided to see if she could muster interest from within the second most prevalent region instead.

Through the help and support of
Business Link London, Helen was introduced to
Mr Hadford Howell, MBE, JP, at the British High Commission, Commercial Section, Bridgetown,
who made every effort to help her foster good relations with local people already involved with sexual health promotion in order not to offend anyone as a visitor to the island. He arranged seven meetings for her in just a few moments on the phone. Amazing.
Among those she met, Helen was introduced to Mr Barton Green, the then President of Barbados Family Planning Association warmly opened the doors of assistance and offered to help her in any way he, and BFPA could, throughout the Caribbean, via their strength as an affiliate to IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation).
A link was established and so began the story of SEXplained... in the Caribbean.
For further details, please see SEXplained.com where further chronological information rests.

So - Feb-March, 2000

British High Commission - Barbados - press launch of the books.

 

 

Now available from Mr Sanka Price -
The Nation Newspaper, Bridgetown, Barbados, for whose Better Health Magazine Helen writes Barbados' first sexual health column.