Zubaida Bai: A simple birth kit for mothers in the developing world
Zubaida Bai: Un kit de naissance simple pour les mères dans les pays en développement
Zubaida Bai innovates health and livelihood solutions for underserved women and girls around the world. Full bio
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that you will listen to me,
be prepared for birth;
préparé à l'accouchement ;
of access to basic clean tools
d'accès à du matériel de base propre
meurent chaque année
die every single year
to basic cleanliness
d'accès à l'hygiène de base
par un chaud après-midi d'été
and listening to their needs,
des femmes et à les écouter,
d'une sage-femme.
j'étais curieuse de savoir
on how she delivered babies in her house.
les accouchements chez elle.
conversation with her
calling to do what she was doing,
en réalisant un accouchement -
pour les accouchements ?
to deliver the babies?
the mother and the baby," she said.
la mère de l'enfant, » dit-elle.
agricultural tool in my hand in shock.
outil agricole entre mes mains, choquée.
et je suis partie.
hugged her and walked away.
of my own infection
sur l'infection
pendant un an après mon accouchement,
for a year past childbirth
to the best medical care,
aux meilleurs soins médicaux,
avec mon père,
with my father,
would be so different
aurait été si différente
just next to him growing up.
pendant son enfance.
j'ai commencé mon processus de recherche.
I started my process of research.
qu'il existait un produit
that there was a product out there
de pouvoir en acheter un.
en fonction des fonds disponibles.
based on availability of funding.
I was in shock again.
j'étais de nouveau choquée.
ces instruments pour accoucher. »
to deliver my baby, I thought.
je suis retournée voir ces femmes,
I went back to the women,
of using this product.
déjà utilisé ce produit.
the same reaction and more.
que moi voire plus tranchée encore.
accoucher sur le sol
deliver on a floor
that smeared blood all over.
couverte de sang.
it would cause more infection.
cela causerait plus d'infections.
to bacterial infection
pour les infections bactériennes
that men used for shaving,
que les hommes utilisent pour se raser,
anywhere close to them.
en entendre parler.
to redesign this product,
à reconcevoir ce produit,
consulted in this process.
consultées dans ce processus.
n'existait pas seulement à domicile
was not only in homes
with high-volume births.
un grand nombre de naissances.
were even more daunting.
était encore plus déconcertante.
by collecting feedback,
en collectant des avis,
researching global protocols.
recherchant des protocoles mondiaux.
avec chaque prototype
we went back to the women
un produit adapté.
was that these women,
que ces femmes,
à leur santé et à leur bien-être.
on their health and well-being.
a well-designed product
pensé pour leurs besoins.
développées avec des experts,
working with experts,
an easy process at all,
un processus très facile,
un design simple et élégant.
que le produit existant,
the existing product was offered for,
de proposer « janma »,
to deliver "janma,"
dans une pochette.
contient un drap absorbant
a blood-absorbing sheet
a bar of soap, a pair of gloves
cordon ombilical, un savon, des gants
pour nettoyer le bébé.
to wipe the baby clean.
in a beautiful purse
dans une jolie pochette
as a gift after all her hard work,
après son dur travail,
fièrement comme un symbole de prospérité.
as a symbol of prosperity.
Je peux le garder ? »
Can I keep it?"
un d'une autre couleur
"Will you give me a different color
que c'était le premier sac
that this was the first purse
et sa simplicité,
and its simplicity,
mondialement reconnus
globally recommended medical protocol
to follow steps one after the other.
de changement comportemental
but also in institutional settings.
mais aussi dans les hôpitaux.
sur plus de 600 000 mères et enfants
over 600,000 mothers and babies
to watch these numbers grow,
ces chiffres croître,
à cent millions.
we reach a hundred million.
ne s'arrête pas là.
that require low-cost interventions.
de problèmes simples
à bas coûts.
that if we invest in women and girls
health and well-being,
à la santé et au bien-être,
and prosperous communities.
plus saines, plus riches et prospères.
simplicité et dignité
and dignity to women's health issues:
to breaking taboos,
maternelle, briser les tabous,
le contrôle de leur existence.
to take control of their own lives.
without engaging men and women alike
sans inclure les hommes et les femmes
de Leonard Cohen :
by Leonard Cohen:
qui peuvent encore sonner
placed in the world of women's health
placés sur la santé des femmes
are at the center of a sustainable world,
que les femmes
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Zubaida Bai - Women's health advocateZubaida Bai innovates health and livelihood solutions for underserved women and girls around the world.
Why you should listen
Building on her expertise as a mechanical engineer, a social worker and her public speaking skills, Zubaida Bai put her unique passion to work. In the process, she built a brand and a product line, and she set in motion a movement that addresses market failures, breaks taboos and gives voice to the oft-ignored matter that is women’s health.
Bai is the founder and CEO of ayzh (pronounced "eyes"), a social enterprise based in India that designs vital healthcare products to improve the health and happiness of women and girls across their reproductive lives. Bai launched her company with janma, a $3 clean birth kit in a purse, but her story goes further back to when she stood by her mother to face head-on the challenge of survival facing her family when she had just entered her teens.
janma was conceived after traveling to one of the poorest communities in India and confronting the reality that more than one million mothers and babies lose their lives in the developing world each year due to uncleanliness at the time of childbirth. Packaged in a pink biodegradable jute bag, a design that mothers can reuse as a purse, the kit provides both cleanliness and dignity. Since beginning sales in 2012, Bai's company has sold more than 250,000 kits to more than 300 health institutions in 20 countries, touching the lives of more than 500,000 women and newborns. Bai is now expanding her product line to include kits for newborn, postpartum and menstrual health, while scaling her proven model across India and into Africa.
Bai was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Maternal Health Champion by Ashoka, a TED speaker (Fellow and Resident) and the United Nations SDG Pioneer by the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). ayzh's strategic partners from around the world who have written about Zubaida's work: TOMS shared her safe birth story; USAID blogged about how she's empowering women through a simple purse; and Grand Challenges Canada recognizes her lead role in scaling life-changing kits for mothers and newborns.
Bai believes that building a sustainable company takes a great team, stamina and a sturdy suitcase. She is fluent in eight languages and travels the world forging new partnerships and advocating for women's health. She has spoken at events for Women in the World, Pfizer Foundation and Women Deliver. She holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering specializing in development of modular products, and an MBA in social and sustainable enterprises.
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