Dr Abiodun Adereni, Founder and CEO of HelpMum wins 2021 Waislitz Global Citizen Award
International advocacy organization Global Citizen and the Waislitz Foundation today recognized Dr Abiodun Adereni, Founder and CEO of HelpMum, as the winner of the Waislitz Global Citizen COVID-19 Response Award.
The Waislitz Global Citizen Awards are annual cash prizes totalling $250,000 that recognize the excellence of individuals in their work to end extreme poverty. The grand prize is $100,000, with three additional prizes at $50,000 each.
This year, all applicants were evaluated based on individual merit in five key areas, including 1) global citizenship, 2) proof of concept, 3) disruption, 4) scalability and 5) adaptability. Despite hundreds of applications from activists in every corner of the world, Global Citizen selected four people whose projects stood out as especially creative and important in the fight to defeat poverty.
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Presented by the Waislitz Foundation and Global Citizen, the award is supported by a leading U.S. and Australian-based cellular medicine company, Mesoblast Ltd.
Other awardees include Bina Shrestha, Co-Founder And Director of Build Up Nepal, (Waislitz Global Citizen Award Winner) Tania Rosas, Founder and CEO of Fundacion el Origen, (Waislitz Global Citizen Disruptor Award Winner) and Jimmy Pham, Founder and CEO of KOTO, (Waislitz Global Citizen Choice Award Winner).
Dr Abiodun Adereni received the 2021 Waislitz Global Citizen COVID-19 Response Award, for his mission to eradicate maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria via his organization, HelpMum. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, HelpMum manufactured and provided protective masks to pregnant women, nursing mothers and traditional birth attendants in over 100 remote communities in Nigeria.
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Dr Abiodun Adereni is a young Nigerian doctor who after witnessing one woman dying every 10 minutes on account of pregnancy, childbirth, and the effects of poverty and inequality among women, decided to found HelpMum, with a mission to eradicate maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria. HelpMum uses simple low cost and digital innovations like the HelpMum Vaccination Tracking System, HelpMum Clean Birth Kits, HelpMum E-Learning Platform and he renovated a condemned maternity home to launch the HelpMum Digital Health Cafe.
With COVID-19, they manufactured and provided HelpMum protective masks to pregnant women, nursing mothers and traditional birth attendants in over 100 remote communities in Nigeria. They also launched the first-ever E-learning platform with HelpMum Free Mobile Tablets for traditional birth attendants in remote areas to replace on-site training of traditional birth attendants when it wasn’t possible due to the pandemic.
Congratulations Dr Abiodun Adereni on your latest achievement. We are so proud.
Learn more about Dr Adereni and his works on www.helpmum.org
For more information about the 2021 Waislitz Global Citizen Awards, please visit: www.globalcitizen.org