Adepoju Jaiyeoba
Country: Nigeria
Adepeju Jaiyeoba is the founder Mother’s Delivery Kit which connects Women in rural communities to lifesaving supplies, Founder Brown Button Foundation, an NGO working to improve the face of healthcare delivery in rural communities as well as founder of Colourful Giggles Nutrition, a company that provides affordable nutritional solutions to African children.
So far, her organization has distributed more than 500,000 delivery kits, trained over 4,000 birth attendants across 346 communities in Nigeria and provided access to affordable nutrition using local ingredients to many others.
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 supporting young people with skills and resources she has gathered from experience, prioritizing maternal and child health in Nigeria and Africa at large and providing simple lifesaving solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems.
A graduate of Law from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife and a Partner at Strichland Associates, Adepeju is a recipient of:
• 2019 U.S. State Department and Mandela Washington Fellowship Leadership Impact Award.
• Her Majesty, the Queen of England’s Point of Light Award
• His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales Young Entrepreneur. Sustainability Award
• Unilever Young Entrepreneur Award
• President Barack Obama White House honouree
• 2018 USADF/Citi Foundation Venture Showcase winner, 2017
• Her Network Woman of the Year in Healthcare, 2017
• 100 Most inspiring Women in Nigeria 2017
• 2017 Crans Montana Young Leader of Tomorrow
• 2017 JCI Top 10 Outstanding Young Person in Nigeria
• 2017 JCI Top Outstanding Young Person of the World awardee
• 2016 Research Fellow, International Centre for Women, Canada
• 2016 PATH Innovation Champion
• 2016 D-Prize Awardee in Global Health
• 2015 Cordes Fellow
• Fellow, Global Women in business, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Young Innovator, World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH)
• 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow
• United States African Development Foundation (USADF) 2014 Business and Entrepreneurship Awardee
• 2015 YNaija top 10 most influential Nigerians under 40 and an acknowledged Global Change Leader by the Coady International Institute, Canada.
With background knowledge in Business from the University of Texas at Austin USA, Adepeju has had experience working with the United Nations Foundation as well as other top organisations, helping to build strategy and develop work plans around social enterprises and maternal and child health.
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, and has served on several panels discussing issues across youths, women, innovation, policy formation and business in Africa.
