Hajia Salamatu Garba is a Nigerian and has a Bsc in Botany and Msc in Plant Pathology from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria. She received her Gender Trainers and Development Post Graduate Certificate from the Centre for International Development and Training, University of Wolverhampton, in the UK. She has  bagged a Doctorate Degree from the Institute of Excellence in Dubai for her Enormous leadership and Community Development Initiative across the African region.  Hajia Salamatu is the founder of the Women Farmers Advancement Network- WOFAN formed in 1993 while she was still a lecturer at two Nigerian Universities, ABU Zaria and Bayero University, Kano.

 WOFAN was formed as a response to the plight of the rural women in Northern Nigeria, as people who are voiceless, poor and absolutely dependent on poor resources through the use of local/ indigenous technology. The low literacy level and lack of awareness on many socio- economic issues of the rural women was also the bedrock for the establishment of WOFAN and interest in rural development!  – WOFAN’s aim is to improve and promote the economic, social and political empowerment of rural women and youths to transform agriculture into business and develop positive linkages across all the agricultural value chains including access to finance and technical know -how. WOFAN over the years has supported Thousands of households scale up and diversify their income, constructed and supported hundreds of schools and Islamiyya centers across Northern Nigeria to support rural education and improved livelihood of the girl-child and women empowerment (www.wofan.org).

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Email : salamatugarba@wofan.org