This is cross-posted from the Women Make News website for which the article was originally written.

Nick Pearson has a great background for what he's doing--business school, Path and then the Acumen Fund. He and his partners are pioneering a maternal health franchise system for East Africa, beginning in the slums of Nairobi. The want to create a sustainable and scalable operation to change the way antenatal and maternal health services are provided to women living in urban slum areas.