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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by Idris Elba  Jackie Nickerson for TIME Last summer many around the world were shocked as we watched the Ebola crisis unfold. We were devastated by what we saw and keen to help. One man, Dr. Jerry Brown, watched too and did just that. He took action and stopped people from dying of Ebola. Through his work as medical director of the Eternal Love Winning Africa Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, and in the face of skepticism and misunderstanding, he trained, taught and treated waves of people who came to his hospital. I am in awe of the health workers who worked so hard to prevent the spread of this disease, but I am especially in awe of Dr. Brown. His courage and determination to fight this disease undoubtedly kept alive many health workers and helped communities fight this deadly virus. It is perhaps too soon to say we have defeated Ebola, but we have certainly started to turn the tide. West Africa and Sierra Leone have a special place in my heart because my father was born there. Like me, I’m sure he would have been proud of the work that people like Dr. Brown did to fight Ebola. It is because of this man’s actions—rather than his words—that many lives were saved. _Elba, an English actor, starred in_ The Wire _and_ Luther ### Photographing TIME's Person of the Year in Africa, Europe and the U.S.  Foday Galla, 37, Ambulance Supervisor, photographed at home wearing a PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) suit, in Signboard community, in Monrovia, Liberia. Nov. 26, 2014 Jackie Nickerson for TIME  Salome Karwah, 26, a nurse currently working at Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres’ Ebola Treatment Unit in Monrovia, Liberia. Nov. 26, 2014 Jackie Nickerson for TIME  Dr. Bruce Ribner, Medical director of Emory University Hospital's Serious Communicable Disease Unit in Atlanta where he treated U.S. Ebola patients. Nov. 20th 2014. Bryan Schutmaat for TIME  Nurse Kaci Hickox photographed outside her relatives home Freeport Maine. Nov. 16, 2014\. Hickox was quarantined in New Jersey after treating Ebola victims in Sierra Leone. Bryan Schutmaat for TIME  A Nurse and Hygienist trainee dressed in PPE at the Liberian Ministry of Health’s Ebola Treatment Unit at the former Ministry of Defense compound, in Monrovia, Liberia. Nov. 27, 2014 Jackie Nickerson for TIME  Professor Thomas W. Geisbert at his Lab at the the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Dec. 2, 2014\. Geisbert is a virologist who conducted the first Trials of the Drug TKM-EBOLA. Bryan Schutmaat for TIME  Foday Galla, 37, Ambulance Supervisor, photographed in Signboard community, in Monrovia, Liberia. Nov. 26, 2014 Jackie Nickerson for TIME  Amber Vinson and Nina Pham, nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. They contracted Ebola while treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan. Dec. 5, 2014 Bryan Schutmaat for TIME  Dr. Jerry Brown, 46, Medical Director of ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. Nov. 27, 2014 Jackie Nickerson for TIME  Dr. Pardis Sabeti photographed in her lab at the Broad Institute in Cambridge. Nov. 26, 2014\. Dr. Sabeti sequenced the Ebola Genome from this outbreak. Bryan Schutmaat for TIME  Prof. Peter Piot photographed in a lab at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Nov. 12, 2014\. He discovered the Ebola virus in 1976. 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