Toyin Saraki
| Toyin Saraki | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 September 1964 |
| Alma mater | SOAS, University of London |
| Religion | Christianity |
Toyin Ojora-Saraki (born 6 September 1964) is a healthcare philanthropist and the Founder-President of Wellbeing Foundation Africa.
Toyin Saraki was born into the Ojora and Adele royal families of Lagos as the daughter of the Yoruba aristocrat Oloye Adekunle Ojora, the Otunba of Lagos. She had her elementary education in Lagos, Nigeria after which she went to the United Kingdom and attended Roedean School, Brighton. She then obtained her L.L.B degree from the London School of Oriental and African Studies and her L.L.M from King's College London, both of the University of London. She returned to Nigeria and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1989.
As Founder-President of Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), Mrs Toyin Saraki is a Nigerian philanthropist with two decades of advocacy covering maternal, newborn and child health, gender-based discrimination and violence, improving education, socio-economic empowerment and community livelihoods in Africa. She is an advocate of Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 in Nigeria, reducing the rate of maternal and infant mortality. She also launched a successful social media campaign through Wellbeing Foundation Africa in 2012 called #MaternalMonday to raise awareness on key issues in maternal, newborn and child health in Africa.
She contributed largely to the establishment of the Lifestream Charity in 1993 and is a global advocate of the UN’s Every Woman Every Child campaign. Toyin is on the board of the Global Foundation for the Elimination of Domestic Violence and the board of the Africa Justice Foundation.
Toyin Saraki is the Newborn Champion for Save the Children Nigeria and was the inaugural Global Goodwill Ambassador to the International Confederation of Midwives in 2014.
Toyin is married to former governor of Kwara State and current President of the Senate of Nigeria, Senator Bukola Saraki and has four children.
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