The Affordable Infant Warmer Affordable infant warmers were another project that required an irmovatiy'e approach to reduce cost and be efficacious and safe for one of the most 1vulnerable customers a newborn baby. In many countries, most neonatal deaths occurred due to hypothermia, infections and asphyxia. In large cities, these neonatal health issues were addressed to a certain extent, due to more developed infrastructure and human capital. But it was in rural areas outside cities such as Kathmandu in Nepal and Bangalore in India that an alarming picture emerged. There existed an urgent need for a practical solution to the high rate of premature births that would never make it to a hospital. This would involve effective mctionality in a rural environment and the capacity to work without electricity and with portability, ease of operation and, perhaps most importantly, affordability