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(Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Shogo Minami), a general incorporated association (not-for-profit organization) that develops and operates the "Pair Chill" talk app for single mothers and single fathers, has started collaboration with the postpartum care app "mamaniere" developed by POLA INC. (Head Office: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Shogo Minami), a cosmetics manufacturer and distributor with 94 years of experience, has started cooperation with the postpartum care application "mamaniere" developed by POLA INC.
Background of Collaboration
As an organization that aims to "create a society that realizes the absolute happiness of parents and children of single-parent families," PairTil has developed and is operating a talk application that "allows single parents to easily and safely talk and vent their feelings to people in similar situations anytime, anywhere" in order to connect single parents with people, information, and social resources in order to solve the problems of economic poverty, abuse, and parent-child suicide due to "unwanted loneliness. We are developing and operating a talk application to connect single parents with people, information, and social resources "anytime, anywhere, easily, and safely, so that they can consult with people in similar circumstances and vent their feelings.
mamaniere" is a postpartum care application developed as a new business by POLA INC. Using the technology that POLA has cultivated over many years in research and development of cosmetics and dealing with women's skin, the application enables users to easily check their physical and mental condition by scanning their face with a smartphone camera for 30 seconds, and provides and suggests appropriate care, services, and other information according to their physical and mental condition.
It is said that the incidence of depression is about 10% due to anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum and lack of support (or inability to seek it) from the surrounding community.
Pregnancy and postpartum depression has been shown to affect not only the mother herself, but also the mother-child and family relationships.
Related URL
Japan Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
https://www.jaog.or.jp/qa/confinement/jyosei200311/#
This collaboration was made possible by the agreement between the two companies' belief that "parents themselves being physically and mentally healthy and relaxed promotes the healthy growth of their children. This will allow us to expand opportunities to introduce various self-care services to single parents who use "Pair Chill.
What is "mamaniere"?
In order to improve the life of postpartum women and the childcare environment for raising infants, the application is equipped with "unique analysis technology" that analyzes the state of mind and body from facial photos, and suggests care and services suited to the "current" state of postpartum mothers by taking a 30-second photo, It is a postpartum concierge application.
In July 2023, the product was released at the Apple Store, and was selected as a subsidized business for the "FemTech Support Service Demonstration Project Subsidy" by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan. It also won the grand prize in the "Fertility and Pregnancy Category" of the BabyTech(R) Awards Japan 2023.
Characteristics of mamaniere
- It takes a handy 30-second video recording to analyze your current state of mind and body.
By taking a 30-second video of the user's face, the system comprehensively quantifies the user's "mind-body" condition, including stress, autonomic balance due to fatigue, fatigue tendency, and even heart rate.
- Self-care suggestions according to analysis results
Based on the results analyzed by the application, it suggests recommended services for self-care and information on childcare.
Download link for iOS version of the application
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mamaniere/id6449989335
The app is completely free!
Special WEB site
https://mamaniere.pola.co.jp
About "Pair Chill
Pair Chill" is a talk application that reflects the voices of dozens of single parents and allows single parents in similar situations to connect and consult with each other.
Many people have voiced their concerns that "it is difficult to build a relationship with a single parent who is in a different situation and has different problems and concerns, so it is difficult to discuss and empathize with them. In addition to a basic profile, "Pair Chill" allows users to set up detailed profiles, including how they became single parents, the age and number of children, and whether or not they are paying for childcare.
Released on the Apple Store and Google Play Store in June 2023, the app has now achieved 1,800 downloads in 5 months since its release and is used by single parents in all 47 prefectures.
In the future, we intend to develop the service into a super-application that supports the daily lives of single-parent families, not only through the talk function, but also through the distribution of member-only benefits for the services of partner companies and support groups, and the operation of our own low-cost online store for daily necessities and food products, etc.
Download link for iOS version of the application
https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/id1666455630
Link to download the Android version of the application
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parchil
The app is completely free!
About General Incorporated Association (Non-Profit-Making Type) PairTil
With a background of being abused from the age of 0 and growing up in a single-parent home, the representative director, Minami himself, started the organization with the desire to "solve all issues related to single parents like his mother and children like himself who grow up in such homes.
We believe that the bottleneck of poverty, abuse, parent-child suicide, and other issues faced by single-parent families is the isolation from people, information, and social resources that single parents suffer as a result of their work, housework, and childcare responsibilities, and the lack of time and mental capacity to cope with them.
As a product to solve this "unwanted loneliness," we have developed and operate "Pair Chill," a talk application that allows single parents in similar circumstances to connect and consult with each other.
In 2023, the company participated in the "ICT Startup League," a startup support project of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and the "Public-Private Partnership Platform to Combat Loneliness and Isolation," Cabinet Secretariat. BabyTech(R) Awards Japan 2023 Grand Prize in the category of parent support services.
Related URL
BabyTech(R) Awards Japan 2023 Grand Prize, Excellence Award, and Special Award winners in each category
https://babytech.jp/2023/10/bta2023_winner/
About Us
Company name: General Incorporated Association Pair Chill (Thoroughly non-profit)
Head office: 2-2-15 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Representative Director: Shogo Minami
Establishment: October 2022 (Date of establishment: September 2021)
HP: https://service.parchil.org/
Contact us: https://parchil.org/#block-b6263c0cb5cd4aa49302b1b0d33d5794
