Our promise as the longest established egg donor agency in South Africa, working with the finest IVF clinics, is to offer you our sincere support in making your dreams come true.

Welcome

Modern reproductive technology allows to provide a highly successful program for women wanting egg donation - with pregnancy rates of about 60% per cycle. The first IVF pregnancy was described in 1978 in England and the first pregnancy through egg donation in Australia in 1984.

In 1986 the first pregnancy with egg donation in South Africa was described by Dr.K.Wiswedel, who now heads the Cape Fertility Clinic in Cape Town, which is one of the clinics where treatment cycles with our donors are performed.

Since then egg donation is a routine treatment around the world like IVF and ICSI.

Who needs egg donation?

Women:
- who are menopausal or have poor ovarian reserve
- who are not falling pregnant after repeat IVF treatments who are not responding to the drugs used in IVF
- whose ovaries have been removed surgically or who have undergone chemotherapy and ovaries are not functioning

What is the process of egg donation?

This process involves obtaining eggs (oocytes) from a healthy young donor, fertilizing them, and then transferring the fertilized embryo into your uterus.

The reason that this procedure is highly successful is that the success rate in IVF (in-vitro fertilization) depends on the age of the egg donor. All our donors are young and healthy and one can therefore expect a high pregnancy rate. the age of the recipient does not affect the pregnancy rate.

Mbali Lechler

Founder member of EDSA

Mbali Lechler - Founder member of EDSA

It is a shocking reality when you find out you cannot conceive. I always took it for granted when it was my time to have a baby it would be easy. But it was not.

Seeing friends starting their family added more pressure on my husband and I. Whilst undergoing fertility treatment I found that I was still relatively fortunate in that I could produce my own eggs, but met wonderful women, who were unable to produce their own eggs and where in an even more desperate situation than myself.

The only option available to them, is to find a suitable egg donor. I found out that few donors are available and waiting lists are long. It became apparent to me then, that there is a need for a caring, professional and affordable egg donation agency in South Africa. With my experience in running my own recruitement agency for models and students, I have continous access to willing and compassionate young women.

After careful research and several meetings with fertility clinics around South Africa, I embarked on this journey to assist couples to connect with an egg donor so that they may realise their dream of building a family.