Adepeju Jaiyeoba is the Founder of Mothers Delivery Kit, social venture which provides ultra affordable sterile supplies for women to use at childbirth while also increasing access to quality healthcare services.
Since founding Mothers Delivery Kits in 2013, the Company has sold over 50,000 kits, trained over 2,000 birth attendants while also working to set up a technology platform to connect hundreds of women to the lifesaving information and quality healthcare personnel at childbirth.
Adepeju is also the Founder Brown Button Foundation, an NGO working to improve the face of healthcare delivery in rural communities.
Adepeju has experience across maternal and child health, Law, civic leadership, policy formulation and legislative drafting, as well as youth engagement.
Adepeju has experience across maternal and child health, Law, civic leadership, policy formulation and legislative drafting, as well as youth engagement.
Specifically, her work focuses on doing business in Africa as well as prioritizing maternal and child health and was in fact honoured by the then United States President, Barack Obama and hosted at the White House, Washington for her effort.
A graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Adepeju is a White House Emerging Global Entrepreneur, PATH International Innovation Champion, 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow, Fellow of the international Center for women Canada, Fellow of the Unreasonable Institute, member of Women in Successful Careers (WISCAR) 2015 Young Innovator of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), She Leads Africa’s top 10 female entrepreneur for Diaspora Demo day, 2015 YNaija top 10 most influential Nigerians under 40 (Advocacy), 2015 Cordes Fellow and an acknowledged Global Change Leader by the Coady International Institute, Canada.
With background experience in global health with the United Nations Foundation and background knowledge in Business from the University of Texas at Austin USA, Adepeju is passionate about Social Entrepreneurship and focused on providing simple lifesaving solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems.
She has spoken at a number of events addressing high level audience including Presidents of countries and stakeholders. She is a two time speaker at the United Nations Foundation Social Good Summit, has addressed the United States Congress Black Caucus group to help the current US administration draw priority focus areas in Africa on healthcare and served on several panels discussing issues across youths, women, innovation, policy formation and business in Africa.
