Safespot
HOISK has been working on a universal design concept with the aim to improve conditions for newborns and mums in refugee camps and areas of crisis.
We have been co-operating with designer Johan Verde and four students of design on the project. DOGA (Design and Architecture Norway) has sponsored part of the project. Innovasjon Norge contributed in the early phase.
The HOISK bag/carrycot for babies is foldable, easy stackable and insulated. Weight: 2 kg included 18 mm insulation. When folded all the way out you have seating a mat. The bag can be shipped to where needed, and fill it up with a babykit and a dignitykit for mums where needed.
Prototype
Facts
At least 89.3 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes. Among them are nearly 27.1 million refugees, around half of whom are under the age of 18.
The number of people forced to flee their homes has increased every year over the past decade. It now stands at the highest level since records began. This cannot continue to be a trend.
Read more: https://www.unhcr.org/ph/figures-at-a-glance
Tests
HOISK and NGO “A drop in the Sea” have cooperated on a project in Greek refugee camps in 2019. The aim is to secure pregnant women before giving birth. Our insulated and foldable bag concept can be used as a carryon for babies.
HOISK mumbags were delivered together with clothes and blankets for mum and baby before handed out to pregnant women in one of the camps.
Today I delivered the last mumbag in the refugee camp! I went with an interpreter and asked the first nine mums to receive the bag. They have had it for a while now (three babies were born during the last two weeks). They are all very pleased with the mumbag and they mainly use it as a daybed for their baby.
- 9. August 2019, Anne, Volunteer, Dråpen i Havet
Read more: “Dråpen i Havet”
CARE Norway brought samples of the HOISK bag to Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan with good response on use of the bag in areas of crisis with cold climate and bad conditions.
Sustainable Development Goals
“#3: ENSURE HEALTHY LIVES AND PROMOTE WELL-BEING FOR ALL AT ALL AGES
This Goal includes a comprehensive agenda for tackling a wide range of global health challenges, from tuberculosis and AIDS to traffic accidents and alcoholism. Goal 3 also calls for achieving “universal health coverage”; reducing illness and death caused by pollution; and increasing the global health workforce, especially in the world’s poorer countries.
Our contribution:
”By using the mumbag as a carry cot for babies adding an insect repellent mosquito net, we aim to reduce malaria”
“#5: ACHIEVE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN AND GIRLS
Equality and empowerment includes freedom from discrimination and violence. It also includes making sure woman have their equal share of leadership opportunities and responsibilities, as well as property ownership and other concrete reflections of power in society. Note that the Targets for this Goal make several references to the need to be nationally “appropriate” in interpreting what they mean.
Our contribution:
«Empower women by securing basic needs for mum and baby the first six months.”
“#10: REDUCE INEQUALITY WITHIN AND AMONG COUNTRIES
The world is astonishingly unequal: the richest 80 people have the same wealth as the bottom 3.5 billion. The Goal includes a range of measures, including regulation of the financial markets, to make the playing field more level. Importantly, it also covers the issue of migration, which should be “orderly, safe, regular and responsible.”
Our contribution:
”Support migrating families.”
*IOM - UN Migration
As we go, more goals will be added towards sustainable production and innovation, partnership, responsible consumption and production and climate action.
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