08 March 2011

JANMA by AYZH ~ Affordable Clean Birth Kit

Excellent to see the inventive and entrepreneurial Zubaida Bai visit us here in the Media Lab to share the latest developments of her AYZH business, the JANMA Clean Birth Kit. Zubaida initiated this social venture at the MIT D-Lab sister program, the Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise (GSSE) at Colorado State University (CSU). The central AYZH mission is to look...
"...through the eyes of women to identify the tools they want and need to help improve their standard of living. AYZH serves the needs of impoverished women worldwide by bringing them affordable appropriate technologies that increase income and/or improve health."
Their prime product at the moment is the JANMA affordable clean delivery birth kit which allows rural Indian midwives to deliver babies under the most hygienic conditions possible with the goal of increased post-natal health...

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