Temie Giwa
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Biography
Temie Giwa-Tubosun (born Oluwaloni Olamide Giwa, 4 December 1985) is a Nigerian-American health manager, founder of LifeBank (formerly One Percent Project), a business enterprise in Nigeria working to improve access to blood transfusions in the country. In 2014 she was listed as one of the 100 Women "to take notice of now [and] in the future" who are making a difference around the world by the BBC.
Of her work, Mark Zuckerberg said, in Lagos, on August 31, 2016, "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."