After a conversation with Minister Henry Ori of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, First Lady Mellisa Santokhi-Seenacherry started the “Me Time” project in schools. This is nothing more than doing mindfulness exercises that calm our brain. This gives us the ability to control the daily school and work pressure. This gives us the ability to control the daily school and work pressure. For school children, doing “Me Time” is extremely important to keep calm before taking a rehearsal or exam, for example.

After the meeting with the minister, the ministry sent a list of ten schools that were willing to implement the “Me Time” project. The First Lady visited these schools to do these breathing exercises together with the children. The intention is that the school management, together with the teachers, continue these exercises with the children. To be able to do this, a tablet is donated to each school, on which there is a self-recorded video with the exercises.

“Me Time” is about creating safe places in the brain and learning to listen carefully to the body’s signals when it comes to mental health. . It is important to live in the here-and-now (mindfulness) and not in the past. The goal is to deliver mentally strong, resilient, resilient and healthy young Surinamese citizens to society.