Meet The Team - Haima Health Initiative

MEET THE SPECIAL TEAM

We're a team of optimists who love to work together.

Our team of passionate optimists bridges the gap between blood donors, healthcare institutions, and patients in need. Through education, advocacy, event drives and innovative solutions, we increase blood availability, improve accessibility, and save lives. Join us in empowering a healthier Nigeria, a pint at a time.

The Board Members

Our board comprises of dedicated professionals with diverse expertise, united by a shared passion for addressing Nigeria’s chronic blood shortage. Our board members bring valuable insights, guiding our mission to ensure accessible, safe blood for all Nigerians.

Bukola is a lawyer, sickle cell and blood donation advocate and Founder of Haima Health. She began Haima due to her personal experience living with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) and leading Sickle Cell Aid Foundation (SCAF). She was inspired to start Haima because people living with SCD often need blood transfusions but struggle to access it due to poor donor culture, logistics challenges and high costs. Bukola leads her team of staff and volunteers to carry out activities to raise awareness about blood health, SCD and blood donation across Nigeria.

Bukola recently began Haima Mobile, a logistics service to support patients with blood delivery across Lagos at a subsidised fee. For her role in health advocacy, Bukola has received numerous awards including the Future Awards, Obama Foundation Africa Leaders and Queens Young Leaders award delivered by Her Majesty, the Queen of England.

Victor is a qualified medical doctor working with an insurance company. He coordinates the responses to blood requests and manages our relationship with hospitals in Lagos and Abuja.

Kanayo is a practicing physician with over 5 years experience in clinical medicine and emergency care. He leads our team’s medical outreach and programs. He has a bachelors in medicine and surgery with distinction from Ebonyi state university

Nkechi is the founder of the Sickle Cell Aid Foundation (SCAF) and helps Haima to coordinate national and international partnerships. She is also a lecturer of Law and International Business Environment at the University of Lincoln.

Dawn is an experienced public policy professional who spent the last decade advising government agencies, development partners and the private sector on transformative investments in Africa. During that time she led a number of consulting projects in the health sector relating to malaria research, healthcare policy and financing, and most recently the region’s covid response.

Dawn is currently focused on shaping technology policy to accelerate Africa’s digital transformation and drive economic growth and development. She is excited about the many not-so-obvious ways we can leverage technology to solve problems big and small, and is keen to work with Haima Health on expanding and improving our programs.

Onyebuchi is a Partner at Hudson Sandler and is in charge of their West Africa Business. She is an Advocacy and Communications specialist, helping public and private sector players navigate complex stakeholder ecosystems – galvanising support and building coalitions, improving the policy environment, raising awareness of critical socio economic issues while building the capacity and the trust required to deliver socioeconomic impact. She has over 15 years experience working across Africa, the Middle East and the United Kingdom. She has a first degree in Psychology and a Masters in Business Analytics from The University of Warwick.

Buchi brings a uniquely commercial perspective to our operations, having supported large donor funded healthcare projects across the continent.

Osayi Olotu is the founder of Lotus Ecoculture, an agriculture development company providing cultivation and processing as-a-service in West and East Africa. In Nigeria he founded Lotus Ecoculture Nigeria limited, aggregating crops from farmers across the country, providing technical support, inputs and access to market for the farmers.

Osayi holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Business Management form the University of Newcastle, a Masters of Laws in International Business and Commercial Law from the University of Manchester and a Diploma in Finance Management from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Osayi is a Sickle cell Advocate and survivor, after living with sickle cell for 32 years, He was fortunate to receive a stem cell transplant from the National Institutes of Health, Maryland. He has worked with SCAF and Haima Health in many capacities and is dedicated to supporting warriors through Advocacy Fundraising.

The Staff Members

Our dedicated staff work tirelessly to bridge Nigeria’s blood supply gap. Our team combines expertise and passion to coordinate blood donations, engage communities, improve healthcare partnerships and drive advocacy. Together, we empower a healthier Nigeria, one drop at a time.