Tiny Hearts of Maldives on Sunday launched Hearty Breaks, its corridor school activity, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education.
First Lady Fazna Ahmed inaugurated the pilot programme at Ghaazee School in the reclaimed suburb Hulhumale'. Minister of Education Dr Aishath Ali and top ministry officials' also participated in the event.
Designed to ensure that school environments encourage students to remain active, Hearty Breaks was initiated on the occasion of World Heart Day.
First Lady Fazna expressed that the corridor activity would promote social interactions, collaborative learning and provide children with a purposeful way of using corridors during free time.
Tiny Hearts initiated Hearty Breaks with financial assistance from the Geneva-based World Heart Federation, a global NGO committed to uniting members in the fight against heart disease and stroke, with a focus on low-and-middle-income countries.
The local NGO was elected a member of the World Heart Federation on September 17, 2017.
Tiny Hearts revealed plans to establish Hearty Breaks circuits in schools across Maldives after considering the results of the pilot programme.
The NGO was established in July 2009, in the memory of Keyaan, the firstborn of the organization's founders Ali Muaz and Fathimath Hishmath Faiz. He was born with a congenital heart condition that eventually led to his untimely passing at the mere age of two and a half months.
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