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Please close your eyes,?and open your hands.?Now imagine what you could place in your hands:?an apple, maybe your wallet.?Now open your eyes.?What about a life? 0:27What you see here is a premature baby.?He looks like hes resting peacefully, but in fact hes struggling to stay alive?because he cant regulate his own body temperature.?This baby is so tiny he doesnt have enough fat on his body to stay warm.?Sadly, 20 million babies like this?are born every year around the world.?Four million of these babies die annually. 0:47But the bigger problem is that the ones who do survive?grow up with severe, long-term health problems. The reason is because in the first month of a babys life,?its only job is to grow.?If its battling hypothermia, its organs cant develop normally,?resulting in a range of health problems?from diabetes, to heart disease,?to low I.Q.?Imagine: Many of these problems could be prevented?if these babies were just kept warm. 1:13That is the primary function of an incubator.?But traditional incubators require electricity?and cost up to 20 thousand dollars.?So, youre not going to find them in rural areas of developing countries.?As a result, parents resort to local solutions?like tying hot water bottles around their babies bodies,?or placing them under light bulbs like the ones you see here --?methods that are both ineffective and unsafe.?Ive seen this firsthand over and over again. 1:38On one of my first trips to India, I met this young woman, Sevitha,?who had just given birth to a tiny premature baby, Rani.?She took her baby to the nearest village clinic,?and the doctor advised her to take Rani?to a city hospital so she could be placed in an incubator.?But that hospital was over four hours away,?and Sevitha didnt have the means to get there,?so her baby died. 2:02Inspired by this story, and dozens of other similar stories like this,?my team and I realized what was needed was a local solution,?something that could work without electricity,?that was simple e