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Enabling Mothers To Balance Working and Breastfeeding
KTN: Kenyan National TV Station
Maziwa was selected from a pool of over 2,600 applicants from 135 countries for the MIT SOLVE Class of 2020 and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded award for Maternal & Newborn Health!
Maziwa wins Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Award
MIT Sloan
The World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is a campaign organised and coordinated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) annually from 1st to 7th August to inform, anchor, engage and galvanize action on breastfeeding and related issues. The focus of 2023’s WBW is on empowering families and sustaining breastfeeding-friendly workplace environments.
Enabling Breastfeeding: Making a Difference for Working Parents
Institute for Human Resource Management
Every day, countless Kenyan mothers are forced to choose between work and breastfeeding. Sahar Jamal, founder of Maziwa, has a vision to redefine maternal health. With the Wema breast pump, she empowers working mothers to balance their careers with caring for their newborns.
Revolutionizing Kenyan maternal health with Maziwa
Mergerous Media
“Spark Change, Ignite Impact,” dives deeply into each of the interconnected social issues that the Global Good Fund prioritizes: financial inclusion, health, economic mobility, the environment, and education. In this discussion, Global Good Fund Alumni experts Dr. Iffat Aga, Sahar Jamal, David Hojah, and Kevin explore how health-focused entrepreneurs can ignite sustainable impact worldwide.
Spark Change, Ignite Impact: Entrepreneurship and Health
Global Good Fund
Sahar is the Founder of Maziwa, which ignites the potential of African mothers to balance their baby’s health and their family’s economic well being. Her Tanzanian and Indian heritage inspired her to spend the last decade focused on maternal and newborn health in East Africa…
Maziwa named in the Top 100 Meaningful Businesses
MB100
In Africa lack of resources compounds the financial demands on many new mothers, giving them a difficult choice: Stay at home to feed their babies or return to work to support their family. Sahar Jamal has spent years thinking about this problem. Her company, Maziwa, makes the only breast pump specifically designed for working mothers in developing markets.
Empowering African women to take control of their health
Poets & Quants
Working moms are some of the most important – but often most marginalized – members of society. Our vision is that we transform our societies and systems to celebrate and appreciate moms for raising the next generation of a world.
Celebrating working mothers
Poets & Quants
Jamal expects that by year’s end the Wema breast pump will be used by 2,000 moms and newborns in Kenya and another 1,500 elsewhere. Her goal is 100,000 mothers and newborns in Kenya annually by 2027, and another 150,000 in sub-Saharan Africa.
Empowering working moms in Africa
Smith School of Business Magazine
Several MBA startups defy traditional startup categories. This year, Sahar Jamal, who designed a breast pump customized for working women in developing countries, won the 2019 Kellogg Social Entrepreneurship Award at Northwestern University, which included $70,000 in seed money.
Maziwa named one of the most disruptive startups of 2019
Poets & Quants
This simple intervention has the potential to make an exponential difference in a mother’s ability to prevent her infant from fatal diseases, protect her own health and sustain her family’s economic well-being.
An MBA student’s social entrepreneurship journey in East Afria
Northwestern Kellogg Blog
Maziwa won the audience favorite vote, and took home an extra $2,000 in addition to their $5,500 social impact finalist prize. This all-women team is working to bring specially designed breast pumps to disadvantaged mothers in Kenya.
Maziwa wins audience favorite award at Venturecat
The Daily Northwestern Kellogg School of Business
Maziwa’s design includes a rechargeable battery-powered cooler and pump so that women can collect and store breast milk even if they have no access to electricity or refrigeration.The pump’s sleek, compact design also allows women to pump more discreetly.
Alumna’s startup gives babies a healthy start
Northwestern Magazine
A principled, inspiring choice that could reach thousands, delivering both generational and international impact.