Jane Chen founded an organization that designs low-cost incubators to help babies in need. Her organization has helped over 40,000 babies across 10 countries. One baby named Long that was helped by her organization was adopted by a family who contacted Jane to thank her for the role her organization played in saving Long's life. Jane emphasizes truly understanding the problem you are addressing and always testing your assumptions when designing solutions.
25. “I loved your post in February, celebrating
Long's first birthday. We have a pre-approval to
adopt him and hope to travel to Bejing this
summer to bring him home. We are so grateful
for your organization and the role you played in
saving Long's life.”
March, 2013
This, to me, is one of the most beautiful parts of the human spirit.
We then realized that babies in these countrries don’t wear diapers, so we needed a completely water proof fabric that would be easy to clean
To make it even easier to clean, you needed something with no seams inside – just one solid piece of fabric that was easy to fold out
We then took the product to doctors, and found out that they wanted a clear window in the front.
Here, we realized we needed more user testing…so this is a picture of my nephew stuffed into a prototype
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Let that guide everything you do, and everything those whom you lead do—you’ll never go wrongif you stay rooted in your purpose.
Those words haunt me and they drive me.I remember a public health professor once saying to me, “the death of a child is a tragedy. The death of a child for a preventable cause is an injustice.”My hope is that mothers will no longer need to lose their children from preventable causes because they will have access to technologies that empower them to save their babies. Technologies that are powered by their love. That is my vision of a just and a beautiful world.