Kenya · blood donor network
Someone near you has the blood you need.
Unganisha alerts nearby donors with the right blood type the moment a request is posted — without putting a patient's name or a family's phone number on the internet.
Free, always. Blood in Kenya is never sold.
We start within 5km and widen only if we must — so donors are asked rarely, and only when they can genuinely help.
Kenya collects a third of the blood it needs
- units needed each year
- 500,000units needed each year
- units actually collected
- ~175,000units actually collected
- Kenyans need blood every 10 minutes
- 7Kenyans need blood every 10 minutes
- don't know their blood group
- 4 in 10don't know their blood group
Today that gap is closed by families posting a patient's name, condition and their own phone number to Facebook groups, hoping it travels far enough. It often works. It also exposes a family's worst day to an audience they can never take it back from. Unganisha gives the same reach without that cost.
How it works
- Step 1
A request is posted
A relative or hospital staff member gives the blood group, the hospital and how many units. Verified hospitals publish instantly; everything else is checked by a person first.
- Step 2
Nearby donors are alerted
We notify eligible donors with a compatible type near that hospital — closest first, widening only if needed. Never more than each donor agreed to.
- Step 3
A donor walks in
The alert carries the hospital and a reference, not the patient's identity. In most cases no phone numbers are exchanged at all.
What we never do
Most people who need blood are afraid of two things: that nobody will come, and that asking will cost them their privacy. We only ask you to risk the first.
If anyone asks you to send money for blood, it is a scam. Report it to us and to the police.
- Show a patient's name, age or condition to donors or the public.
- Reveal a donor's phone number. Not to a requester, not to anyone.
- Test you for HIV or anything else. We hold no test results — there is no field for them in our system.
- Charge anyone, for anything.
Unganisha connects people. We do not collect, test, store or transport blood — that is the work of the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service and the hospitals we point you to. All donation happens at a licensed facility, and every blood group is re-verified there before any transfusion.