SINCE she quit office as the first lady of Kwara State, Mrs. Toyin Saraki, the Founder/ President of Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), has been involved in one project or the other. The wife of new strongman of Kwara politics and chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment, Senator Bukola Saraki, has since 2003 brought several initiatives and interventions to make life better for the people.

Toyin, international campaigner for maternal, newborn and child health, rights and empowerment, reaffirmed this commitment on her recent visit to the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) in The Hague, Netherlands. She clamoured for a critical need to provide universal access to a well-educated, well-equipped and regulated midwifery workforce, especially at the grassroots level in developing countries like Nigeria

A qualified barrister, she had built a successful private sector career before dedicating the last 21 years to philanthropy. Her utmost passion is to reverse the vicious cycle of poverty in the society by easing its less privileged members into a state of wellbeing which, in her opinion, is “a satisfactory condition of existence in health, happiness and prosperity.”