NUHU FATIMOH FOUNDATION (NUFAT)
NUFAT Foundation was established in 2007 as a non-governmental, non-profitable and non-political organization with primary aim of alleviating poverty, empowerment of women and youth, good environmental sanitation, community, reduction on gender based violence and individual rights, poor environmental hygiene, and inequality that will be compounded by maternal morbidity and mortality rates and to carry out strategic intervention programmes on the prevention of infectious diseases of children, adults and Aged. Conscious of that, as responsible and patriotic citizens and with the zeal to engage in research and advocacy for evidenced based policies and programs, the organization came into being.
Nuhu Fatimoh Foundation (NUFAT) was established in Nigeria and incorporated with Corporate Affairs Commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 15th of October 2007 (RC: 17504) with headquarters based in Kwara State and a branch in United Kingdom (UK).
Nuhu Fatimoh Foundation was founded by DR. (MRS.) ASUIAT AYINKE SAKA, a renowned stakeholder in the Health sector and women activist in Nigeria. It started with three staffs and over the years has expanded to over 15 staff under its pay roll which was consisted with permanent, temporary and volunteers. Currently, the Foundation has six professional personnel. The foundation presently working with Global Affairs Canada (GAC) under Women and Voice Leadership Nigeria Project (WVL) been coordination by ActionAid Nigeria from July 2021 through June 2023, before now, between 2012 and 2018, the Foundation had completed a project with Kwara State Aid Control Agency (KWASACA) under a credit from World Bank Assisted Project to the tune of #9,990,000.00 (Nine Million, Nine Hundred and Ninety Thousand Naira only). Though the foundation had r4eceived its first programmatic funding from World Health Organization / HSF (world Bank) under its small grant program to the tune #1,200,000 ($9600) in 2008 to 2012 for a project on the prevention of malaria in 0-5years children and pregnant women within and outside the state through the distribution of Anti-malaria, Analgesic, Insecticide treated nets (ITN), Hematinic and Health Education across the board.
Since then the Organization has forged ahead in community based intervention services in the areas of Health, GBV, OVC, Women and youth leadership participation, decision making, community empowerment and other debilitating areas like the less privileged and the physically challenged persons. Specifically targeting populations’ that include children, orphans, out of school Youth, Aged, unemployed and others. To be more specific, gender equality and equity in leadership in every ramification.
The organization is particularly focused on promoting and protecting identified less privileged (women and girls) rights through programmes that address issues of gender based violence and gender discrimination including Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). To be more precise, the founder of the Foundation facilitated a bill in Kwara state which to the enactment of Violence Against Persons Act (VAP ACT) in Kwara state.