YSEALI Spring 2019 - Kevin Facun:
Participant Name: | Keving Facun |
Project Location: | Bulacan, Philippines |
Program: | Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) |
Term: | Spring 2019 |
Project Title: | MilkTrack |
UConn GTDI Project Award: | Application Accepted & Funding Awarded |
Kevin is An Electronics Engineer with technical skills in Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Management. He is a huge believer in innovation and an advocate for health related start-ups. kevin is one of the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines, a Gintong Kabataan Awardee and a scholar with a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering degree focused in the development of biomedical software and devices from the University of the Philippines.
Five-Year Project Goals:
- To be not only as an application service but rather as a platform that educates about the proper know-hows of optimal breastfeeding as well as breastmilk sharing with the help of concerned stakeholders.
Organization Information: MilkTrack
MilkTrack is a web application that provides access to optimal breastfeeding education and lactation support while at the same time serves as a medium for efficient, convenient, easy and safe access to donated breast milk. It is a platform that can help save severely sick and premature babies confined in NICUs through online breastmilk sharing. It is basically the Grab for donated breast milk. Mothers with excess breastmilk can now easily donate and become Human Milk Donors (HMD) while parents with sick kids who can’t produce enough breastmilk supply can now register as Human Milk Users(HMU). Its whole operation is based on the existing human milk banking manual of operation of the Philippines only that through this platform it is made more efficient through systems automation. The social enterprise, through its vision to “Make the Philippines a breastmilk sharing country” also helps solve problems of very few existing human milk banks specifically in terms of extending the supply to meet the current demand. It also capitalizes on helping replicate communities of well-educated breastfeeding mothers that are well-built on maternal trust to ensure the safety of the donations.