Health and Humanity

Vital Stats

Ferris K

Orlando, FL

people helped2500
People Doing It 3

The Problem

I want to solve an over looked health and equality problem that women and children of certain religious organizations encounter every day. Women and children of certain religious organizations (Islam, Orthodox Jews, Hindu etc.) have high restrictions placed on them that either prevent them from joining a uni-sex gym, or make it extremely difficult for them to feel comfortable working out at a gym with men. I know this is an unmet need in my community and many others. Through my research I have found that there are roughly 2,496 women and children facing this problem in my community alone. I've also found that there are seven established local gyms, none of which are for women only. With that being said, I would like to provide an affordable fitness center in my community that will accommodate and benefit these women and children. My main goals are to promote equality and create a sustainable solution that will prevent and reduce obesity, in a youth and female population that has yet to be acknowledged. Regardless of our personal beliefs, we should all have the equal right, opportunity and chance to live a healthier lifestyle characterized by fitness.

Plan of Action

First and foremost, I would like to develop and lead a diverse team of individuals that follow different religions, which place the same unfair restrictions on their women and children. I believe that this would be the best way to make my project scalable and make a difference in as many lives as possible. Once I develop a solid team we will come together to start a crowd funding campaign and a social media platform for our cause. I will set up meetings with the board of directors of different religious organizations, once our crowd funding campaign and social media platform is up and running. I hope to use the public's support to help win the board of directors over and spread awareness of our cause. I've also set up a meeting at the National Entrepreneur Center with my mentor, to help me with the process of making my cause a Non-Profit organization. Furthermore, I plan to solve this problem, by implementing a simple yet effective three step program, which combines my 3 key factors for success- Awareness, Education and Prevention. By spreading Awareness, supplying Education and providing a means for Prevention, I will succeed in achieving my goal. First, I plan to spread awareness on the problems women and children of certain religions face and how it can result in not having a gym to exercise. Then I will educate my community on how this problem has and will continue to contribute to the obesity rate in our children and adult female population. Finally, I will prevent and reduce the problem, by creating a gym that will address an unmet need in my community and serve as a means for prevention.

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