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Zubaida Bai is the Founder and CEO of Ayzh – a social venture providing health and livelihood solutions to economically disadvantaged women.
According to the UN, one maternal death occurs every 10 minutes in India. A large number of these deaths occur due to poverty, unhygienic practices and a lack of awareness. In 2010, Zubaida Bai decided to do something constructive instead of simply being appalled at such statistics.
Zubaida Bai holds a Master’s in Engineering (Product Development & Design) and an MBA (Social & Sustainable Enterprises). Putting her education and experience to good use, she launched Ayzh’s signature product, Janma. Janma is a clean birth kit which contains simple tools recommended by WHO to provide sanitation and sterility at the time of childbirth. This kit goes a long way in saving lives of women and infants.
Ayzh also employs local women to assemble the kits, thereby providing a source of livelihood and sustenance to the women. Soon, they plan to develop a new-born kit as well as a port partum haemorrhage kit. Zubaida Bai’s work in the field of maternal healthcare has been recognized worldwide; she was a TED Indian Fellow in 2009, an Ashoka Maternal Health Fellow in 2010 and an Echoing Green Fellow in 2012.
Why we find her inspiring:
– For being an agent of change in the lives of impoverished women across the world.
– For understanding and empathizing with the harsh ground realities of life as an Indian woman, especially in rural areas.
– For empowering women from poor socio-economic conditions through Ayzh.
*Photo source: TED.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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