Hakini—which signifies “tell me” in Arabic—is resisting social disgrace and absence of mindfulness by aiding huge number of Palestinians put resources into their emotional wellness. The internet based emotional well-being stage is set for make psychological well-being care more open by giving teletherapy and direction to self improvement mediation in Arabic.
Hakini’s site and adaptable application matches customers to counsels giving mystery thought and guides customers on a personal growth adventure maintained by evidence based exercises. The vast majority of customers are women and adolescents, who face a shortfall of available mental wellbeing resources. Hakini’s success is a direct result of its sponsorship by Arab enthusiastic health specialists who change content and organizations expressly for Arab culture.
Need is the mother of innovation Sondos Mleitat, the prime supporter and Co-CEO of Hakini, is a full-time business person and she holds a four year college education in design designing from Birzeit University. With a foundation in speculation, plan thinking, and venture the board, Sondos generally had the drive to accomplish something that would help her local area.
The possibility of Hakini came when Sondos actually had a difficult time and wound up needing treatment. At that point, Sondos battled to observe the assistance she really wanted. In addition to the fact that services were restricted, individuals looking for help should fight with disgrace and absence of mindfulness about the significance of emotional wellness and prosperity in Palestine. Measurements show that just 10% of the Palestinians requiring care and emotional wellness administrations can get it.
“Current psychological wellness care suppliers are complicated, rumpled, costly, and downright frustrating,” says Sondos. She wanted to make an efficient, customized, and reasonable emotional wellness care and mindfulness answer for Palestinians and individuals from the district, and all over the planet.
“Toward the start of the pandemic, my fellow benefactor Majd and I were in the thought phase of creating Hakini. We worked physically and on an extremely low scope.” Sondos clarifies. “At the point when we saw the require the hackathon ‘Hack the Crisis Palestine’ we chose to partake.”
Mental health therapy should be accessible to everyone
‘Hack the Crisis Palestine’ was an internet based occasion facilitated by Gaza Sky Geeks, a work of Mercy Corps and Google for Startups working together. Gaza Sky Geeks is the lead collaborating space, startup gas pedal, and innovation training center in Palestine. The hackathon united in excess of 130 groups to share thoughts and track down arrangements in wellbeing, schooling, and work life for Palestinians in the hour of COVID‑19. Victors of the occasion proceed to get backing and mentorship to create and send off their thoughts.
Having a really special thought that serves a real need in Palestine, Hakini won ‘Hack the Crisis Palestine’. After their success, Hakini continued to the brooding stage at the Gaza Sky Geeks Startup Accelerator. The escalated 16-week pre-seed speed increase program assists organizers with building a usable item that was tried by clients, send off their applications for people in general to utilize, and scale their client base.
At the point when they joined the Gaza Sky Geeks Startup Accelerator in 2020, Hakini just had a thought without execution. The assistance of the Gaza Sky Geeks Startup Accelerator group woke them up to numerous parts of their endeavor, from their pitch deck to their plan of action.