The Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA) was established in 2014 as a non-profit organization. In the run up to this, the Founder, Mrs. Toyin Ojora-Saraki with two decades of experience in global advocacy and an advocate for women’s health and children’s health and empowerment understands that much can achieved with only a few resources if you get engaged and deliver with passion. Her passion has led to the collaboration of WBFA both globally and locally in the delivery of projects beyond women’s and children’s health into other sectors such as water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), climate change, cancer management, education etc. This 2023 Annual Report provides an overview of the activities and impact carried out by the WBFA in 2023. At WBFA, as catalysts of social change, we recognize the fundamental role that data and evidence play in decision-making processes. Through evidence-based information, we invite our stakeholders and community members to view the impact of our various programs on the communities we served. In the Reckitt Dettol Hygiene Quest WASH program promoting hygiene education in schools, communities, and healthcare facilities across 3 states, Abuja, Kwara and Lagos we reached 38,240 individuals compared to annual target of 30,827, thus significantly exceeding our targets by 24%. Similarly in our MamaCare program, we educated mothers of neonates with the essential information required to address the knowledge gap on lactation practices. As of December 2023, our results indicated that over 95% of mothers has been reached recommended lactation practices and exposed to breastmilk and breastfeeding information in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). This has improved improvement in growth and survival of neonates that can occur because of undernutrition or malnutrition. Finally, this report highlights, not only our achievements and impact, but our methods or approaches in navigating these challenges.
