14/06/2025
Before we became the world's largest autonomous logistics network, we were just a small team trying to solve a big problem: getting blood to patients in rural Rwanda.
Blood was Zipline’s very first delivery. It took months of integration with the first hospitalscand some wise advice from the then Minister of Health Dr. Agnes Binagwaho to just focus on blood. It was the right call.
Since then, we’ve delivered ~400,000 units of blood across multiple countries, helping ensure that postpartum hemorrhage, trauma, and other medical emergencies don’t turn fatal.
But you can’t deliver blood if there’s none to give. In many parts of Africa, supply remains far too low or is non-existent. That’s why we’re not only delivering blood, but also helping collect it.
Across Rwanda, Ghana, and other countries, we partner with national blood agencies to host and sponsor blood drives and mobilize communities to donate. Over the years, we've enabled the collection of over 26,000 units of blood because saving lives is a chain of effort that begins with the generosity of blood donors.
On this we celebrate not just the delivery, but the donation that made it possible.
