International Woman of the Day

Adepeju Jaiyeoba

Today is International Women's Day .As a youth activist I have taken it upon myself to celebrate young African women who are making impact in their communities and countries. Today I celebrate a change maker, entrepreneur and a mentor of thousands of young leaders in Africa. Her name is Adepeju Jaiyeoba from Nigeria.

Adepeju Jaiyeoba is a skilled community advocate with experience in women’s right and maternal and child health in Nigeria. She is the founder of Mothers’ Delivery Kit, a company that manufactures and distributes birth kits for purchase. In this capacity, she coordinates business development for the organisation and works to continually develop an effective distribution line that will see women across Nigeria connected to lifesaving supplies irrespective of their location at childbirth.

Adepeju is an award winning entrepreneur, trained lawyer, public speaker and maternal and child health enthusiast passionate about innovation and creating simple lifesaving solutions.

She is the founder of Brown Button Foundation which trains birth attendants and Mothers Delivery Kit which provides ultra affordable sterile supplies for women to use at childbirth while also increasing access to quality healthcare services.

With hundreds of thousands of kits sold, Adepeju is a:

•White House Emerging Global Entrepreneur in 2015.

•Research Fellow of the Coady International Institute

•2016 PATH Innovation Champion
•D-Prize Awardee in Global Health
•Cordes Fellow
•2014 Mandela Washington Fellow
•Fellow, Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College Global Women's Entrepreneurship Institute

•Young Innovator of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH)

•Member of Women in Successful Careers (WISCAR)

•She Leads Africa’s top 10 female entrepreneur for Diaspora Demo day

•2015 YNaija top 10 most influential Nigerians under 40 (Advocacy)

•Global Change Leader awardee, Coady International Institute, Canada.

Upon her great achievement and contribution to reducing maternal Health in Africa, Adepeju is very humble, selfless and an epitome of leadership. Many young African leaders are looking up to her .She has mentored thousands.