#WomenWeLove WHY WE LOVE TEMI GIWA-TUBOSUN

Not every super hero wears a cape, that much can be said about our woman crush of the week; Temi Giwa Tubosun.

Temi Giwa-Tubosun is a health entrepreneur passionate about saving lives and is doing so through her platform LIFEBANK.

In Nigeria and across the world, many patients die mostly because of lack of blood. Following her experience during the birth of her son and the unfortunate bomb blast incident that tore the UN building in Abuja down leaving many dead (due to blood shortage), the feelings of helplessness that assailed Temi propelled her into action and with the help of a few close friends, Life Bank was born.

LifeBank is a logistics and technology startup which launched in 2015 during the world blood donor day, with a mission to combat the issue of blood shortage and blood emergencies in Nigeria. LifeBank is an innovative virtual blood bank; it is a web application that connects blood donors to patients in need of blood. LifeBank employs technology to discover blood and deploy to hospitals within their current record time of 55 minutes.

The company’s aim is to improve the blood transfusion system in Nigeria, promoting safe blood transfusion and encouraging the culture of blood donation by harnessing the power of young people with the ultimate goal of saving lives.

Interested donors can register on the website, book an appointment, the app finds the nearest blood bank location and voila.

The alumnus of Minnesota State University was named amongst BBC’s 100 women “to take notice of now (and) in the future” making a difference around the world and LifeBank was featured on CNN’s African startups.

Most recently Mark Zuckerberg during his visit to Lagos had this to say of her work; “if everyone had the opportunity to build something like this, then the world would be a better place. I’ve been to a lot of different cities; people around the world are trying to build stuff like that. If she actually pulls it off then she’d show a model that will impact not just Lagos, not just Nigeria, but countries all around the world.”

We couldn’t agree with you more Zuck. We are proud of Mrs. Temi and we are excited to see how far LifeBank will touch lives. Bravo!!