Adepeju Jaiyeoba

Adepeju Opeyemi Jaiyeoba (born November 1983) is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and activist who created the Brown Button Foundation as well as Mother's Delivery Kit which creates low cost health care options and delivery kits containing basic sterile supplies for expectant mothers in Nigeria.

[1][2] She also has background training in Business and Entrepreneurship from the University of Texas at Austin USA as well as the Coady International Institute, Canada.

[2][3] Jaiyeoba's mission to reduce maternal and child mortality was as a result of the death of a close friend during childbirth in 2011 and reports of another.

[4] Jaiyeoba was mentioned by Barack Obama in his address in 2014 to the Young African Leaders Presidential Summit in Washington[5] and was also hosted at the White House in 2015.

[2] In 2014, they started delivering birth kits having seen the damage that lack of sterile supplies such as rusty blades used for severing umbilical cords during childbirth can have.

Brown Button Foundation kit