Families search alone
When a patient needs blood, relatives are often told to find donors themselves. The donors usually exist in the same town. Nobody knows who is eligible, nearby and willing right now.
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About LifeDrop
Built by people who've stood in the ward.
We're nurses and builders in Buea. We've watched families leave a patient's bedside to search for a donor after dark. LifeDrop exists so that finding blood in an emergency never comes down to luck.
Our mission
A trusted, WhatsApp-native safety net for blood, starting in Cameroon.
We connect hospitals and families to screened, voluntary donors through the chat and payment tools people already use every day. We coordinate the search; clinicians do the medicine.
Our measure of success is simple: the time between "we need blood" and a donor arriving at the desk, and how many families never have to search alone.
Our story
Families were already asking for blood on WhatsApp. So we built there.
WhatsApp is where people ask
"Do you know an O– donor?" lands in personal chats at every hour. People don't want another app for the one or two moments a year they need it. They already use WhatsApp and MTN MoMo every day.
3rd at MTN YaMo Pitch
We took LifeDrop to MTN YaMo Pitch Season 4 and placed third: a WhatsApp-native donor network with MTN MoMo underneath.
Now
LifeDrop is live in Buea.
The LifeDrop WhatsApp line is live. Donors register in the chat, are screened before every match, and confirm their blood group at the lab. Families request blood in the same chat and pay through MTN MoMo only once a donor confirms.
52donors registered
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The team
A nurse, a scientist and a physician.
A Buea-based founding team, backed by independent medical advice.
Founder & CEO
Chifen Sama Nduma
Registered nurse & health-tech builder
Frontline clinical experience in Cameroon's health system, paired with hands-on product and engineering skills: a founder who understands both the medicine and the build. Leads product, hospital partnerships and donor safety.
We kept asking people to come to our app. They kept asking us for help on WhatsApp. So we moved.
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Amah Bih Lesly
Co-founder & Community Lead
B.Sc. Microbiology, M.Sc. Pharmacology candidate at the University of Buea, with two years of diagnostic-lab work. Leads donor recruitment, community drives and partnerships.
Dr. Carl Monika
Medical advisor · UK-based physician
Clinical governance on donor eligibility, screening protocols and transfusion safety.
Where we're going
From a Buea pilot to a national safety net for blood.
Now
Buea pilot
The LifeDrop WhatsApp line is live in Buea with 52 registered donors. Next: formal hospital partnerships.
Next
South-West Region
More hospitals and campuses. Grow and re-verify the donor pool and prove the unit economics.
Then
National
Cameroon-wide coverage, deeper MoMo and hospital integration, and more languages.
Vision
Central Africa
A trusted, WhatsApp-native blood network across the region.
Help us build the first step, not the last.
We're looking for hospital, NGO and funding partners who want the Buea pilot to become a national safety net.