Saraki’s wife clocks 53, affirms commitment to safe births

Wife of the Senate President, Toyin Saraki, clocked 53 on Wednesday with renewed commitment to promote the health of babies and their mothers.

In a post she shared on Instagram, the mother-of-four wrote: “Each year as I mark my birthday, I reflect anew on the world around me, and how I can improve outcomes for pregnant women and their newborns.”

The founder and president of Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA) added that while her thoughts and prayers are with victims of recent natural disasters in Benue, Houston and Sierra Leone, she remains committed to empowering safe births around the world.

From #10000HappyBirthdays to #50000HappyBirthdays – Each year as I mark my birthday, I reflect anew on the world around me, and how I can improve outcomes for pregnant women and their newborns. This birthday, my thoughts, prayers and disaster response and relief actions have been with the victims of environmental disasters around the world, from the floods in Benue State and Houston to the mudslides in Sierra Leone, yet my commitments to empowering safe births around the world, helping babies breathe and helping mothers survive by advocating for and investing in high quality midwifery education and deployment abides. As I turn 53, I am celebrating a remarkable innovation in midwifery education through training midwives around the world on lifelike anatomical models, which @wellbeingafrica has deployed across Nigeria in building midwives key skills, capacities, competencies and resilience to save lives, in supporting the call for proposals from national country midwifery associations to participate in this innovation for #50000HappyBirthdays. See the program in action, learn more and apply for #50000HappyBirthdays https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAKJYOHG1fk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INEaJHCsaIY http://internationalmidwives.org/news/?nid=425?

A post shared by Toyin Saraki (@toyinsaraki) on Sep 6, 2017 at 12:51am PDT

In another post, Mrs Saraki is seen with her husband, Bukola Saraki, writing that she is thankful “for life, love, peace, productivity, His Grace, His Mercy, which abides always.”

#Thankful @53 for life, love, peace, productivity, His Grace, His Mercy, which abides always. Amen

A post shared by Toyin Saraki (@toyinsaraki) on Sep 6, 2017 at 1:53am PDT

Born into the Ojora and Adele royal families of Lagos, Mrs Saraki is an advocate of Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 in Nigeria, with a mission to reduce the rate of maternal and infant mortality.

She 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.