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- Launched today, people can register online via AsterVolunteers.com or spot register through the Aster Volunteers check-points at Zabeel Park in Karama on 1st October. The initiative will conclude with a mega event on 8th October at Zabeel Park where people who complete the highest number of steps will be awarded.
- This is a global initiative being conducted simultaneously across 6 countries in India and GCC where Aster has a presence.
Dubai, UAE: On occasion of World Heart Day, Aster Volunteers - the global CSR arm of Aster DM Healthcare, one of the largest integrated healthcare provider network in GCC and India, has launched Heart to Heart Walks – a weeklong initiative at Medcare Hospital, Al Safa, Jumeirah. The global initiative will bring together people from 6 countries to join the fitness programme and get an opportunity to change the lives of underprivileged children in urgent need of medical intervention.
#Heart2Heart initiative by Aster Volunteers aims to encourage people to walk for a healthy heart, while simultaneously contributing towards helping with heart surgeries for underprivileged children. With the combined efforts of the participating individuals, Aster DM Foundation will be donating INR.100/- for minimum 10,000 steps a day, towards Paediatric Cardiac Surgery for privileged children through Aster Volunteers Treatment Aid programme in India. The week long initiative will ensure that an individual walking minimum 10,000 steps in a day for seven days can contribute Rs. 700 or AED 35.
Speaking on the initiative Dr. Azad Moopen, Founder Chairman and Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare said, “The #Heart2Heart initiative by Aster Volunteers brings forth the importance of staying healthy and fit physically while remaining spiritually fulfilled by the power of giving. Through the #Heart2Heart campaign, we want to showcase the importance of living an active life through making exercise as a part of one’s daily life. Let us create an active generation focussing on their health, while contributing to the larger cause of enabling a healthy future for underprivileged children.”
Participants can register online on Heart2Heart.AsterVolunteers.com or spot register at Zabeel Park from 28th September to 8th October 7 am onwards. For more information regarding the campaign one can reach out to aster.volunteers@asterdmhealthcare.com.
Over the last 4.5 years, Aster Volunteers has emerged into a global movement bring driven by over 37,000 volunteers who have impacted over 3 million lives.
About Aster Volunteers, the global CSR programme of Aster DM Healthcare
Aster Volunteers programme, the global corporate social responsibility initiative of Aster DM Healthcare, was launched on occasion of the company's 30th anniversary in 2017 and provides a platform which bridges the gap between people who would like to help with those in need. Driven by Aster DM Foundation, through various initiatives, the programme has been able to impact 3+ million lives across geographies. Aster Volunteers have been able to treat 470,890 individuals through mobile medical camps; 171,238 people have benefitted from basic life support trainings and 39,148 free surgeries as well as health investigations were conducted; supported with the recruitment of 122 differently abled people and treated 559,304 people through medical camps. The aid programme in Somali land, Jordan, Bangladesh, Yemen and Kerala has benefitted 294,158 people.
Aster Volunteers have also been at the forefront of the battle against COVID – 19 and has impacted 1.9 million lives.
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