The project
We are committed to making fertility care accessible and affordable worldwide. Since 2010, the organization has taken a multidisciplinary approach, working alongside partners such as the World Health Organization and the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
Through research, innovation, training, and global collaboration, The Walking Egg aims to strengthen fertility care, especially in resource-limited settings. The focus is on developing cost-effective treatments, sharing knowledge, and breaking the social stigma surrounding infertility.
The project brings together science, healthcare, and societal impact with one clear goal: making high-quality fertility care available to everyone who needs it.
PhD lecture Gerhard Boshoff
TED-talk at the university of Hasselt
The Walking Egg in Africa
"The Walking Egg leaves the ivory tower of science and the laboratory of art. It injects sterility with fertility. It fights for the universal right to reproduction in developing countries."
Koen Vanmechelen - Co-founder
We want children of our own
"I am a registered nurse from the Philippines. I read the article about your low cost ivf experiment for developing or poor countries like us. I was excited about the news. I would just like you to know that it really gave us hope, especially for couples who can't afford the procedure but would really want to have children of their own.
I'm 35 years old and diagnosed with PCOS. My husband is 33 years old and has very low sperm count. We've been married for four years now and are still trying to conceive. Our fertility doctor's recommendation is to undergo ivf but right now we cannot afford it.
We are getting worried because of our age. When we will be financially ready we will be biologically too late for it. So I really hope that this low cost ivf will reach our country soon. Thank you very much in taking time to read my message.
Congratulations on your good work!"
Social embarrassment
I read your article titled ‘Affordable IVF for developing countries’ online and I am tempted to ask you if you have address of agencies that can provide funding for IVF-treatment for me and my wife.
We have been married for four years and we do not have babies yet. We have been recommended to have IVF-treatment in India which will cost us about 6000 USD for both of us but money which we cannot afford.
This situation has cost us a lot of social embarrassment.
