Global Leadership

The Nigeria Project

The Foundation for America's Blood Centers (FABC) believes that no man, woman, or child should die for lack of access to a safe and adequate blood supply. FABC is proud of our affiliate blood centers that are sharing their time, expertise, and leadership with countries of need. The Safe Blood Africa Project is one such program and FABC is proud to support it.

Working together with The Safe Blood Africa Project—an initiative started by the Rotary Club of Carmel Valley—four California-based not-for-profit blood centers will help bring safe blood programs to Nigeria. Dumbfounded when they learned of needless deaths because safe blood was simply not available, professionals from BloodSource (Sacramento), Stanford Blood Center, Northern California Community Blood Center (Eureka) and Blood Bank of the Redwoods (Santa Rosa) stepped up to save lives. Three of these blood centers are members of America's Blood Centers, which collects half the U.S. blood supply.

This U.S. blood banking team is committed to teaching Nigerians to encourage blood donation by volunteer donors and to teach Nigerians how to collect, test, process and transfuse blood in the safest way possible. Working together with Rotary Clubs across the United States and in Nigeria, as well as funding sources that can support this effort, the goal is to create sustainable blood donor and transfusion medicine programs in Nigeria that will assure that no child dies needlessly because safe blood is not plentiful.

Your donation to the Foundation for America's Blood Centers in support of the Safe Blood Africa Program will allow our partner blood centers to provide much needed expertise and supplies to blood banks in Nigeria so lives can be saved.