MIGHTY METRES PROGRAM -
SEEDED BY THE NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS
Zara's Center is committed to integrating healthy living with core teaching, learning, and recreation programs. To that end, Zara's leadership worked with representatives of the New York Road Runners (NYRR) to replicate the Mighty Meters program in Zimbabwe during the 2011 year. This program, based on NYRR's Mighty Milers program in the US, gives kids the opportunity and encouragement to get moving, release energy, improve their fitness and health, set and strive for individual goals, and bond with their schoolmates.
Zara's Center Program Manager, Shepherd Hlomayi, and an American volunteer worked with NYRR through online resources to introduce students and the community to the program -- and to integrate the program with Zara's core nutrition and healthy living initiatives. Kids of all fitness levels and abilities learned to walk or run a prescribed program that met weekly. . When students reached milestones, they earned incentives provided by Zara's Center and NYRR.
The Africa-based team was assisted state-side by nonprofit professionals with experience in community programming. Grant funding from NYRR seeded the program, with matching funds provided by PG Family Foundation. A program round up is featured on the following page, and a final report will be prepared and sent to NYRR by January 15, 2012.
Zara's Center Program Manager, Shepherd Hlomayi, and an American volunteer worked with NYRR through online resources to introduce students and the community to the program -- and to integrate the program with Zara's core nutrition and healthy living initiatives. Kids of all fitness levels and abilities learned to walk or run a prescribed program that met weekly. . When students reached milestones, they earned incentives provided by Zara's Center and NYRR.
The Africa-based team was assisted state-side by nonprofit professionals with experience in community programming. Grant funding from NYRR seeded the program, with matching funds provided by PG Family Foundation. A program round up is featured on the following page, and a final report will be prepared and sent to NYRR by January 15, 2012.
