Founder and President of Wellbeing Foundation Africa, WBFA, Mrs Toyin Saraki was given the prestigious Citizen Engagement award by Speak Up Africa, for her work in improving the lives of women, girls and new-borns in Nigeria. Mrs Toyin Saraki, who is the wife of Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki, was at the Inaugural Benefit in…
Partner of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, WBFA, PharmAccess Foundation, has been commended for the 2016 Financial Times/International Finance Corporation Transformational Business Award for Achievement in Sustainable Development: Maternal & Infant Health. PharmAccess Foundation works in a public-private partnership with the Kwara State Health Insurance Program; the private insurer, Hygeia Community Health Care; and the Health…
Founder and president of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, WBFA, Toyin Saraki, spoke last week at a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, on ways to tackle the challenges of gender inequality. Mrs Saraki was at the Women Deliver conference alongside other policymakers, non-governmental organisations, private sector business leaders, and women from across the world. The wife of…
The MamaCare Antenatal Education Program, an initiative of Wellbeing Foundation Africa, was on Thursday launched at the Ikeja Military Cantonment in Lagos. MamaCare Antenatal Education Program provides education for expectant parents across a range of subjects, including the birthing process, prenatal nutrition, attending to the many needs of an infant. With a class of over…
The important roles of midwives and nurses in the health sector and the society were appreciated during a programme organised in Abuja on May 4 and 5 by Toyin Saraki’s Wellbeing Foundation Africa, WBFA. The organisation partnered with the International Confederation of Midwives, UNFPA and the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, to…
The Wellbeing Foundation Africa has shared insights with the leading global development platform, DEVEX. When working with women and girls from post-Boko Haram captivity, the Foundation, as part of a local network of organizations working for improved protection of women and girls, called for “an individual-based intervention.” The article, published on 22nd April 2016, on…