#ayzh

[ghost-afraid-of-ghosts]

Wait, wasn’t this part of the extended edition?? Idk about fireflies (if you have further information on that little tidbit I’d love to know), but I’ve definitely seen the rest of what you described before.

This is what I’m talking about (0:45-the end) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYzH--dGdXM

All right I recently learned about the deleted firefly scene and it makes me go fucking insane.

Like!! what the fuck was up with that! Like it was never even filmed! But it makes me go insane. For a semblance of context its a scene where Bilbo and Thorin overhear Elrond and Gandalf talking about how likely Thorin is to get goldsickness and talk about it in the bottom of some stairs while fireflies surround them.

And like what the fuck is up with them. How the- I have so many thoughts about this like fucking.

it's kinda sorta implied that only a couple of the Company knew about the goldsickness (I might be wrong about that) so this means that Thorin trusted Bilbo Baggins with that information before the clifftop scene BEFORE that fucking hug, Like That makes me insane what the fuck!

[demondermo]

Hola, quiero decir que tienes un muy lindo estilo de dibujo, nunca dejes de dibujar sigue practicando! Algún día llegaras a ser mas talentos@ de lo que ya eres ;)

QwQ ayzh!! Gracias! Eres tan dulce qqwqq seguiré practicando, muchas gracias~~ QvQ y tu también tienes un gran talento y hermoso estilo de dibujo~ qqwqq que lind@ eres~ gracias!! -abrazos-

[drewillis1980]

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[airmanisr]

Aircraft by john Via Flickr: Reg No G-AYZH, Taylor JT-2 Titch.

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Announcing (in alphabetical order) our selected social ventures in the Health, Wellness & Food Track for the 2017 CO Impact Days Social Venture Marketplace!

Abarrotes Bondadosa AidLogic PBC Altius Farms, Inc. Animal Assisted Therapy Programs Colorado Any Street Grocery Aunt Bertha, a Public Benefit Corporation ayzh Better Drinking Culture Brewability Lab eLivelihood Family Tree Market Hygge Birth and Baby Infinitely Simple/Windhorse Guild, Inc Makeena Maria's Place LLC Music is Caring (M.i.C.) Next Wave US Impact Fund Nymbl Science Play-it Health Poudre Valley Community Farms, A Land Cooperative, Ltd. Radish Systems, LLC (Project: From Start-Up to Sustainability) Rocky Mountain Micro Ranch Safe Rx LLC SharingFood SmartCare Connect Snap2Save The Edible (R)Evolution The Up Beet Kitchen, Inc theFarmBoard, Public Benefit Corporation UpDIG Farm + Grocery Village Exchange Center Win-Win Corporate Citizenship ZNA Health

GET YOUR TICKETS TO THE MARKETPLACE TODAY!!

[isaacscrawford]

How The Private Sector Can Empower Entrepreneurs To Improve Global Health

For health entrepreneurs and funders, successful collaboration requires a variety of ingredients that go beyond an initial monetary investment. Strong communication, alignment of objectives, and a long-term outlook are critical for any partnership to thrive. But these collaborations require something else, too—flexibility.

When it comes to global health, we have long known that no single company, foundation, or organization has all the answers. In the past, the private sector, including corporate-giving programs and foundations, relied largely on cash and product donations tied to immediate health needs or interventions.

Against a backdrop of a dramatically changing world, however, we must think and act differently to promote strategies for improving global health that can endure long after the initial investment.

Across the world, innovators and entrepreneurs are “disrupting” traditional approaches and implementing new solutions on a local level that seek to sustainably improve health for vulnerable communities. The private sector can play an important role in accelerating these innovations and creating an environment where entrepreneurship can thrive. But doing so requires a flexible and truly collaborative approach to funding that provides growing enterprises with the autonomy to navigate the unique and fluid challenges they face.

Our organizations’ partnership is an example of this. In 2016, the Pfizer Foundation and ayzh, Inc., a for-profit venture that provides high-quality, affordable reproductive health products—from menstrual hygiene kits to products designed to ensure cleanliness during and after birth—entered into a strategic partnership through the Pfizer Foundation’s Global Health Innovation Grants (GHIG) program. Through this collaboration, the foundation will support ayzh’s scaling and data-collection efforts, helping to empower ayzh with the tools it needs to refine and expand its offerings.

The Pfizer Foundation is working in a similar way with twenty organizations and social enterprises in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, combining grant investments with technical support to create a nimble, collaborative, and responsive approach to helping entrepreneurial initiatives grow, all with the objective of improving the health of vulnerable communities.

The successful partnership between the Pfizer Foundation and ayzh is rooted in our organizations’ shared mission: to improve the health and well-being of underserved people around the world. It also reflects a collaborative approach to funding in which the needs and priorities of organizations are emphasized over specific intervention tracks defined by funders. This method represents a shift from traditional, restricted funding models and seeks to empower social entrepreneurs, knowing that for an organization’s impact to grow, the organization must have resources and support, including funding, technical assistance, and mentorship.

Ayzh’s Story

Take ayzh’s story: Since its founding in 2010, this social entrepreneurship business has brought to market a line of innovative, low-cost, maternal care offerings for women in India and Africa. ayzh’s core product is janma, a $3 clean birthing kit in a purse, which provides essential components recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for a safe and hygienic birth. The kit fills an important gap. Approximately 830 women die every day because of complications during pregnancy and childbirth, mostly in low-resource settings.

The inspiration for the birthing kit came from a meeting with a midwife in India who, lacking dedicated birthing tools, stated that she used an agricultural sickle to cut umbilical cords following births. Throughout the kit’s design process, ayzh consulted with global health experts, physicians, and mothers to ensure the product was designed with women’s needs in mind.

The resulting product is simple and symbolic: the kit’s tools come packaged in a beautiful purse that women are able to keep as a sign of prosperity. One woman, who received janma in Malawi, Africa, expressed that it was the first purse she had ever owned.

So far, janma birthing kits have affected more than 600,000 mothers and children, by providing sustainable, low-cost interventions to help reduce maternal mortality and improve women’s and children’s health. Funding from the Pfizer Foundation is helping ayzh expand its product line and establish new production and distribution hubs that employ local women.

Just as critically, however, GHIG funding has supported an initiative by ayzh to engage more than 1,000 current and expectant mothers to gather feedback on their experiences and opinions about the janma birthing kit.

While some donors are reluctant to fund analyses like these that lack specific health interventions, the Pfizer Foundation understands that the results from the study have the potential to help ayzh refine its offerings and, in the long-term, further our shared goal of empowering women and communities through lasting health improvements.

Other Examples Of Pfizer Foundation Partnerships

Other examples of entrepreneurial projects that the Pfizer Foundation is supporting through the GHIG program include:

An initiative with Afya Research Africa to expand a network of primary care clinics in rural farming communities. The clinics use a co-ownership business model that engages communities and encourages sustainability.

A project in Liberia with Last Mile Health to train community health workers and equip them with mobile health (mHealth) technology platforms to facilitate accurate and rapid diagnoses of common illnesses.

A partnership with salauno to scale up efforts to detect and prevent blindness among underserved populations in Mexico through a telemedicine center, physician training, and a program to lease portable retina cameras for use in primary care settings.

Future Outlook

Moving forward, the private sector will continue to play a critical role in supporting global health and achieving the promise of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to leave no one behind. But we must also recognize that lasting health improvements occur from the ground up. As ayzh has shown, entrepreneurs have the local knowledge and ideas needed to address communities’ unique health challenges and support progress toward the SDG targets. We should seek to empower local innovators—not just with funding, but with the type of support they need to grow those ideas into solutions that can improve the health and well-being of people for generations to come.

The Pfizer Foundation is a charitable organization established by Pfizer Inc. It is a separate legal entity from Pfizer Inc. with distinct legal restrictions.

Article source:Health Affairs

[madforfashiondude]

TOMS Launches Its Fourth One for One® Product, The TOMS Bag Collection, To Address Maternal Health

TOMS Launches Its Fourth One for One® Product, The TOMS Bag Collection, To Address Maternal Health

TOMS – the company known for starting a global movement through its One for One® business model – has launched its fourth and newest product, the TOMS Bag Collection, addressing the issue of maternal health worldwide. With every TOMS bag purchased, TOMS will help provide a safe birth for a mother and baby in need. The announcement was made today by TOMS Founder Blake Mycoskie.

The TOMS Bag…

[ayzhinc]

Saving Mother Earth, too!

As ayzh creates BIG CHANGE in the field of global health, contributing to the decrease in maternal and newborn mortality statistics, we have done so while keeping the environment in mind. When ayzh came onto the market, a few clean birth kits already existed. Several features separate our kit from others, one being our environmentally conscious intentions.

As you already know, our clean birth kit is packaged in a biodegradable jute purse, as opposed to a plastic zip-lock bag used by other makers of lean birth kits. This means, through the sale of our Clean Birth Kit in a Purse we have already saved over 700,000 kg of plastic use compared to other kits.   

ayzh is committed to finding suppliers of our components that are “Mother Earth friendly,” and we are continually exploring new materials and processes that take into account the full “lifecycle” of our kit. Our goal is to work  with other innovators of health technology to continually improve our components and get them closer to 100% biodegradable, without compromising sterility or quality of medical tools.  

We are inspired by all the innovation happening in appropriate health technology, as we can attest to through our collaboration with the Rural Technology and Business Incubator (RTBI) and MIT's D-Lab.  ayzh is confident in its promise to make a clean birth kit that earns Mother Earth’s approval.

Visit our Indiegogo campaign to get involved in the Big Change!

[givengoodscompany]

The Story of ayzh

We’ve partnered with ayzh (pronounced eyes) this Mother’s Day to give back to new moms around the world. With each purchase made on Given Goods through May 11th, we will donate one clean birth kit to a new mom to fight persistent but preventable delivery room infections. 

1 purchase / 2 lives changed

Yet, there are problems the Republic of India isn’t ready to face: poverty, corruption and discrimination against women and girls are mainstays in a land of much diversity. In poor and rural areas of India, mother and infant mortality rates are especially high. 80% of healthcare facilities are located in urban areas, while 72% of the population lives rurally. As such, access to basic healthcare and life-saving technologies is grossly limited.

Enter: Zubaida Bai. As a young girl growing up in India, she “saw women being abused and their needs never considered. They only existed to look after the kitchen and children.” Bai, who at 14 told her parents she wanted to become an engineer, would often see her peers being impregnated by older men, only to give birth in unsafe conditions where they would often lose their children.

As a teenager, Bai took a job at a new bank in her town opening checking accounts. The money she made went back to her family, enabling her mother to start a tailoring shop. The money helped the family purchase a car, which Bai alone drove. A second tailoring shop was opened. Eventually, Bai found herself in Sweden, working towards a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Then, she returned home to marry.

It was only after Bai gave birth to her son that she understood the dire condition of the women in her country. 15% of the 20 million births in India manifest in debilitating infections. Bai was part of that 15%. In 2011, the Maternal Health Task Force estimated the combined rates of mother and neonatal deaths due to unclean births reached 1 million. Hundreds of thousands of mothers and children were suffering due to prevalent but preventable diseases. Bai threw herself into product development and in 2011, she founded ayzh.

A social enterprise aimed at bringing technology solutions to women in rural areas, Bai uses her passion and experience to support new moms in India, Haiti, Ghana, Malawi and Nigeria through a clean birthing kit called the JANMA. The JANMA contains a sterile sheet, antiseptic soap, a cord clamp, a surgical blade, a pair of gloves and a baby wiping cloth. These six simple, but vital tools are beautifully packaged in a jute purse, enabling mothers to focus on what matters: their wellbeing and their children.

Since 2011, ayzh has directly impacted more than 76,000 women. Ayzh also employs women to package the kits—providing them with 962,000 additional work hours in safe, social working environment in Chennai, India. This means additional income for women and their families—and more money allocated to their children. 

With their sights set high, ayzh is working towards employing upwards of 4,000 women with a goal of distributing more than 1 million JANMA kits by 2015. Those JANMA kits have the potential to impact 3 million women and children across India, Africa and the Caribbean. 

This Mother's Day, Given Goods and ayzh are working together to distribute a JANMA kit to a mother in need with every purchase made. From now through May 11th, 1 purchase will mean that two lives are changed—and those two lives will go on to impact so many more. 

[givengoodscompany]

Celebrate the mom in your life with Given Goods and ayzh! For each item purchased on Given Goods through May 11th, a birth kit will be donated to a woman in an impoverished community. These birth kits are not only integral to expecting mothers, but they save lives and keep families together.

[ayzhinc]

Unite for Girl Rising

Have you heard of the film, Girl Rising, yet? This blog post is dedicated to the revolution that is emerging from this powerful and uplifting documentary, currently being screened in select communities across the country.

10x10, producers of the film, are aware of the many unfair obstacles that girls and women face everyday across the world. The film highlights the many challenges that girls confront across the globe, and how education is the most powerful tool for empowering girls to rise above adversity, better their lives, and change the world.

We also believe strongly in the power of education here at ayzh. Across the world, we see so many girls getting married and giving birth at a very young age, often deprived of knowledge and access to clean birth practices.  ayzh is also acutely aware the poor quality of rural health care systems, recognizing the HUGE need for educating women working as healthcare providers in resource-poor settings.

That is why EDUCATION is a core part of ayzh’s value chain, in two big ways:

Through our innovative Mobile Phone training program, we educate rural healthcare workers (primarily women) on the Six Cleans of Childbirth and how to use our Clean Birth Kit in a Purse properly.

During assembly of our kits, we empower women employees with both job training and the importance of reproductive health and clean birth practices, so that they can become spokespeople for their daughters and their communities.  

We believe there is a direct correlation between educating girls and improving health outcomes around the world.

This is an amazing movement around the world and we would love you to join us! 

Consider donating to our small purse BIG CHANGE campaign on Indiegogo, which is helping to fund our innovative education initiative.  

You can also visit www.girlrising.com to find or host a Girl Rising screening in your community.

Or, if you live in Colorado, you can attend a special Fort Collins screening of Girl Rising on September 19th. 

[ayzhinc]

The High Cost of Childbirth

  Overwhelmed by global maternal and infant mortality statistics? Feeling disconnected from an immense health problem facing women in places far away from home?

This post aims to provide some relevancy. Women everywhere face challenges surrounding childbirth, one of the most common and sacred acts.  Even in wealthier nations such as the United States, childbirth presents a surprising amount of financial burden and health risk.

  “Childbirth in the United States is uniquely expensive… The cumulative costs of approximately four million annual births is well over $50 billion.” -- New York Times, American Way of Birth, The Costliest in the World

  In contrast, it would only cost ayzh approximately $8 million dollars to save the lives of four million mothers and newborns (at $2 USD per birth kit).

When we talk about the “high costs of childbirth” in the US, we usually think in monetary terms.  The price tag on childbirth is around $10,000 for a conventional delivery and $15,000 for a caesarean section. That’s a lot of money - but, we’re getting the best care in the world… right?  Not quite.  Despite the US spending approximately $98 billion a year on hospitalization related to pregnancy and childbirth (costliest in the world), the The Huffington Post reported:

  “The United States currently ranks 50th in the world for maternal health. It is safer to give birth in Bosnia or Kuwait than in California.”

  Shocking, right? The US spends billions of dollars annually, yet we still have such a long way to go when it comes to being a leader on maternal health. Meanwhile, a mere $2 invested in the developing world can go a long way in giving millions of women access to the basic tools needed for a clean and safe birth.

Of course, there are many underlying complexities, but ayzh remains committed to simplicity and affordability with our $2 Clean Birth Kit in a Purse that can save and change the lives of millions.

This is why we are asking you to stand up for maternal and infant health rights around the world - both here in the United States and in the Developing World. We invite you to take an easy first step, - join our small purse BIG CHANGE campaign, where you can act in solidarity to help give all women access to an affordable and safe birth.