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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
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Global atrocities against indiginous
women and girls
Al Jazeera
28 Apr 2022
By Chika Uniwge
<<The Nigerian entrepreneur who runs ‘an Amazon for blood’
Temie Giwa-Tubosun’s business uses data and technology to get urgent
blood supplies to hospitals and to save lives.
Temie Giwa-Tubosun had an epiphany 13 years ago when she met an
expectant mother who was about to lose her baby. Giwa-Tubosun was
working as a 22-year-old intern with a health services organisation in
northern Nigeria, doing surveys of rural people seeking care. The family
of the mother-to-be thought she would die in a complicated labour
because the baby was upside down in a twisted breech position. This
wasn’t an unrealistic fear, in a country where one in 22 women perish in
pregnancy, during birth, while undergoing abortions, or afterwards. As
it turned out, the woman got surgery and survived. But her baby didn’t,
and that death shook Giwa-Tubosun deeply. She didn’t leave her hotel
room for four days and barely ate. <I thought it was so unjust that
women could die in childbirth,> she recalls. <That got me hooked on
maternal healthcare.> That incident, as well as the difficult birth of
her own son later on, got her thinking about blood. Giwa-Tubosun had
been contemplating a career that was health related in some way, and she
knew that postpartum haemorrhaging was the leading cause of maternal
mortality in Nigeria, which records nearly eight times the global number
of 211 deaths per 100,000 live births. That is partly because decent
healthcare in Nigeria is elusive to all but the rich; the World Health
Organization (WHO) consistently ranks it among the worst globally. In
2010, Giwa-Tubosun won a fellowship at the WHO in Geneva. She went on to
work on various health projects, including in Uganda and in Minnesota in
the United States. In 2012, she made the leap and founded an NGO known
as the One Percent Project, whose raison d’etre was to educate Nigerians
on blood donations and distribute them better throughout the country.
This led to the creation four years later of LifeBank, a distribution
business that uses data and technology to get urgent blood supplies to
hospitals. It serves as a bridge between donors and clinics.
Giwa-Tubosun’s work has earned her praise across the globe including
from the World Economic Forum, and she has spoken on influential
platforms – such as the TedxEustonSalon – about her vision for tackling
blood shortage on the African continent. Facebook founder Mark
Zuckerberg said after meeting her in 2016 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.> Giwa-Tubosun is pulling it
off rather well. Working with over 150 accredited blood banks and 142
employees, LifeBank serves over 600 hospitals across Nigeria and has
recently expanded into Kenya, according to Giwa-Tubosun. She says she
has distributed enough blood to save more than 100,000 lives. This
social entrepreneurship is all the more significant considering that
female executives are few and far between in Nigeria – to which
Giwa-Tubosun simply says, <We get to save lives and we get to rescue
people.>
Bikes, trikes and drones.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/4/28/tthe-nigerian-entrepreneur-who-runs-an-amazon-fo
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