Draft:Tamzid Rahman

Tamzid Rahman (Bengali: তামজিদ রহমান) is a Bangladesh Social Entrepreneur & Health Activist known for his advocacy and actions towards his goal of a 0% mortality ratio due to lack of blood transfusion in Bangladesh.

At the age of 15, he founded his organization BloodLink, which is Bangladesh’s first peer-to-peer blood donation mobile app. His app helps connect blood donors to recipients, online, completely free of cost.

Career
In early 2022, Tamzid received a $250 Mini-Grant from Peace First, which allowed him to establish The Plenty Project where he organized a Mental Health Workshop at Dhaka's St. Joseph Higher Secondary School, hosting 150 student participants, alongside counselors and guest speakers.

Further he launched two awareness e-books - on menstrual hygiene and cyber safety for teenagers from this organization.

At the age of 15, Tamzid founded the 'BloodLink Foundation' where his mobile app helps connect blood donors to recipients, online, completely free of cost.

He has scaled his blood donor database including over 950 active blood donors all around Dhaka. His app has been credited with saving lives of over 500 thalassemia-infected children. He has reached over 1,000 individuals through his speaking engagements in sessions/workshops of different schools, and colleges in Dhaka.

Currently, his organization has over 75 volunteers working across 11-sectors of Dhaka and has reached over 15,000 individuals, in-general.

Tamzid is now a leading child health advocate in Bangladesh officially working with the ICT Ministry, Government of Bangladesh.

Honors & Awards
Tamzid won the Glocal Teen Hero Bangladesh 2023 organized by Global Pvt. Ltd. He's also the winner of Bangabandhu International Cyber Security Awareness Award 2023 by UNDP Bangladesh and ICT Ministry of Bangladesh Government.