Innovating to Create Health for All
Who can best create outcomes that lead to the healthiest possible lives of individuals and communities? Leading social entrepreneurs are challenging the traditional patient-provider dynamics from an empathetic and holistic perspective.
Through the promotion of breastfeeding and the preparation of indigenous, nutritious baby food, Ines is building a mother-led movement to improve infant and young child feeding and maternal nutrition in the Philippines.
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Incarcerated women in the US are particularly unwell and routinely denied access to quality healthcare in a system that was designed “by men, for men”. Through Ostara, Erica Gerrity transforms the experience of health education and prison birth and – in so doing – correctional facilities themselves....
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#LeadYoung - Malcolm Asher: Making hospitals more friendly for youth
Starting with a pack of art supplies, Malcolm and his team launched a nonprofit and global movement to change how kids experience hospitals through art.
A Huge Energy Came Through the Prison Walls to Me
We in Hungary who are fighting for the freedom of an Ashoka Fellow Dr. Agnes Gereb, for the right of midwives to assist at homebirths and for the rights of Hungarian mothers' to fulfill their constitutional right to homebirth have been so fortunate to have Ashoka as our ally and friend. From the...
Developing a Positive Body Image
Young Champion of Maternal Health Ifeyinwa Egwaoje presents at the first TED event organized by Tulane University in New Orleans: This blog post was contributed by Ifeyinwa Egwaoje , one of the fifteen Young Champions of Maternal Health chosen by Ashoka and the Maternal Health Task Force at...
Continuing to Work from Pakistan
The 3rd month of my project has been very busy. I am near to completing the training guidelines for traditional birth attendants, health workers and health activists that my mentor, Ashoka Fellow Lucy Attah Auwalu, has encouraged me to write. The guidelines I am working on are based on safe...
Building on Uncertain Ground
This week, we launched our Birth Companion Program in a semi-rural town north of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The program is based on a longstanding program that I was involved with in Canada through Mothercraft Ottawa , but has been adapted to suit the specific needs of the population that the staff at...
Tightrope Enterprises
Managing any type of social enterprise is truly a tightrope act: you have to find this perfect balance between implementing effective programming, while also keeping yourself afloat administratively. Working with Lua Nova for the last six months has shown me the various strategies organizations in...
Yes, We Can Do It
Barbara Grizzuti-Harrison said “Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.” I am quoting this statement because I love it and it reminds me of all the inspirational women in the Birthing Project USA. While I was flying from New Orleans to San Diego for...