cooking workshop for infertile couples
We are fully volunteered NGO. Our mession is to assist patients under infertility treatments. But we also educate youth trying to prevent infertility.
About You
About You
First Name
Ofra
Last Name
Balaban
Twitter URL
Facebook URL
About Your Organization
Organization Name
CHEN - Patient Fertility Association
Organization Website
Organization Country
Israel
Country where this project is creating social impact
Israel
Is your organization a
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
NO
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CPA Nahum Kaufman - Tel. 97239414545
Adv. Israeli Jacon - Tel- 36917770
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Innovation
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
How long have you been in operation?
Operating for 1‐5 years
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Infertility in Israel is a very shy cindition and most of the patients are too shy even to participate in a regular support group or a gongress. So in order to overcome this self blame and shyness we treid a cooking workshop for patients. It is eay to say I am in a cooking workshop than to say I am infertile.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
The solution is a cooking workshop that offer 10 meetings, 4 hour each. Durring the meeting with the guid of a CHEF the patient cook a meal fo all the articipants. Learning to cook and speak about the fertility treaments create a support group that help to coop with the franstration of the treatments on one hand and assist conceive on the other hand.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
The solution of cooking worshop make a difference by the hugh level of participation in the group. The patients like to come and become freinds with other couples like thenselves. While cutting the onion for the meal they astart talking . The surprise was when male participants start talking and support each other. Than they saw that they are not alone in the treatments and that they may share their problems with others. They may also share information about the clinics and about the doctors that assist them to be sure that they are onthe right way to have children and happy family.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
This solution of cooking workshop is a good solution for everyone. Every group of patients may use the cooking wrkshop as a solution to gather patients that suffer shyness.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Social Impact
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
It was 4 years ago when we in CHEN - Patient fertility association have had neetings to find a solutions for the problem of shyness and shame regarding the infertility treatments. Than we thought that reproductive in one of the firsts needs of a person so we looked for other basic need and than - food came up. If food is on the table - we need to knoe how to make it - than the solution of cooking workshop came uo.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
The goal is to make a support group for patients under infertility treatments that are long , difficult and ftrastrating . We wish to make a support group that patients will join with pleasure and will forget about the shyness and shame. This goal was achieved. The second goal was to assist patients to conceive - Tha because we know that emotional support is crusial to rate of success. This goal also achieved, since the group is steel meeting even the cooking workshop is over.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
The impact is 30% pregnancies. A big demand to open more and more groups of cooking workshop all over the country.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
We hope to have the budget to develop more groups all over the country.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
To open 3 more cooking wotk shops not only for Jews but for Arabic Musims in Israel.
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone
Task 1
Get budget for 1 cooking workshop.
Task 2
Get budget for second cooking workshop.
Task 3
Get budget for third cooking worksop.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
To add more groups 4th, 5th and 6th.
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone
Task 1
Budget for the 4th cooking workshop
Task 2
Budget for the 5th cooking workshop.
Task 3
Budget for the 6th cooking workshop.
Sustainability
Tell us about your partnerships
Funds and municipaity of Holon are one level and the other is the Pharma industry companies in Israel.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
No - we are for the assistance patients under infertility treatments .
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
The unique solution on one hand and the spirit of the voluteers make it works.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Since we need budget - it can be from all kinf also menpower. Media may assist too since when you are known it is easier to apply to future partners.
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