Despite her acting prowess and the name she has made for herself, Caryn Elaine Johnson who is popularly known as Whoopi Goldberg; American actress, comedian, author and television host, has sought to provide solutions to some of the natural health challenges every woman is bound to face. Together with her partner Maya, Whoopi has come up with solutions called medical cannabis to relieve menstrual discomfort. The products are also capable of healing other kinds of pain when applied. These products come in four forms: edibles, salves, tinctures, and baths. The options were created with product names that spell out their functions and with the aim to support and enhance the health benefits of every woman. The soak Soak is made up of ingredients like Pharmacological grade epsom salt, apricot kernel oil, avocado seed oil, sun grown cannabis, jojoba oil, tocopherol (vitamin e), aloe barbadensis (aloe vera), and…

In todays digitalized world, technology has brought about new and easy ways to go about routine activities. So many ingenious products have been unveiled to meet the needs of people from all walks of life including easy tools for pregnant women and nursing mothers. Naya Health is one of such products Founded by Janica Alvarez,  Naya Health is a company dedicated to bringing better health products for modern moms through technology. Naya Health is a smart milk Pumper machine, established to make expression easier for nursing mothers. This modern technology lunched in 2016 is a water-based prototype pump, which is more comfortable and more efficient. This “smart” portion pump, comes in its connection to the Naya Health Tracker app, which can be used to control the machine and for record keeping, including logging pumping and nursing sessions. This modern innovation helps “give moms a quick read on supply and demand.”…

By: Valerie Dei Thato and Rea both founded Repurpose School Bags, a company that produces recycled backpacks at low-cost for disadvantaged students in their local community in South Africa. Their young business collects and recycles plastic waste to produce school bags for local students. But that’s not just it. These recycled plastic bags have a solar panel in the flap, which charges as the children walk to and back from school. The bags also have strips of reflective material, an added safety design to make the children more visible to traffic in the early hours. The charged solar panels are used to provide lighting at night. Students can use this light to do their homework and study instead of using candles. This helps students to do more school work and saves money which could have been spent on candles. Thato and Rea have partnered with local individuals and organizations…

Women Up was founded by Sheila Lirio Marcelo founder and CEO of Care.com and joined by Cora Neumann, founder of the Global First Ladies Alliance; Women Up is an organization on a mission to increase women’s role in the global economy through the provision of mentorship, leadership training and support to girls and women through every stage of their lives and careers. The organization, implements programs for Rising Women Leaders which focuses on reducing the formidable barriers stand in the way of many women who desire to lead, not the least of which are personal courage, confidence and capacity; Women Up programs helps participants, reduce these barriers by providing trainings in transformational leadership, skill-building and inspiration to promising women in every stage of their lives and careers; the programs for Rising Women Leaders, is currently being implemented in Sweden, Brazil, South Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the…

Jessica O. Mathews is the Founder and CEO of Uncharted Play, founded in May of 2011 as a new kind of social enterprise grounded in play and the happiness of life that would show the world how play could be a tangible tool for inspiring social invention. Mathews invented the SOCCKET, a soccer ball that harnesses and stores UP energy from play for later use as portable power source in resource-poor areas. It is the flagship product of Uncharted Play, Incorporated. Matthews, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United States, conceived the Idea of the SOCCKET for first came to when visiting Nigeria for a family wedding; the power went out during the party, her relatives switched on the noisy, noxious diesel generators that have become a way of life for nearly 60 million Nigerians. Recall that according statistics in 2015, only about 25 percent of Nigerians have access…

The Bindi is a decorative mark worn in the middle of the forehead by Indian women, especially Hindus. Since almost every Indian woman wears a ‘bindi’, the Grey Group Singapore’s newly formed philanthropic arm, Grey for Good, collaborated with the NGO, Neelvasant Medical Foundation and Research Center, to produce iodine patches, known as the Life Saving Dot. This initiative is further supported by Talwar Bindi. In rural India, millions of women suffer from breast cancer, fibrocystic breast disease and complications during pregnancy — many cases of which have been linked to iodine deficiencies. In order to combat this issue, Talwar Bindi created the Life Saving Dot, that resembles the traditional bindi, which many Indian women wear between their eyebrows, but the Life Saving Dot is coated with iodine to deliver the recommended amount of 150-220 micrograms of the nutrient daily to poor women. It costs only 10 rupees, or 16 cents,…

According to WHO statistics, about half the number of mothers and newborns in developing countries do not receive skilled care during and immediately after childbirth. Nearly 41% child deaths under-five, are among newborn infants, i.e. Babies in their first 28 days of life or the neonatal period Statistics have it that there are 8 million low-birth weight babies born in India every year, and these babies suffer from issues like hypothermia and infection which cause poor growth and often death. Hypothermia basically refers to when the body’s core temperature falls below 36.5ºC (97.7ºF). The word ‘hypo’ means ‘below’, and the word ‘thermia’ means ‘heat’. Newborns are unable to regulate their body temperature, and low temperatures can lead to life-debilitating illnesses. For this purpose, regular monitoring of the infants body temperature is the most reasonable way to ascertain and prevent these issues; however, in areas where there are very few skilled…