WOFAN (Women Farmers Advancement Network) and ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics) have commenced a 2 year joint project on 3 crop varieties of Sorghum, Cowpea and Groundnut.

 WOFAN in collaboration with the Nigerian Medicinal Plants Development Company Abuja (NMPDC) trained 150 women groups on Moringa Oleifera (Zogale) products processing and nutritious complimentary Baby food making from 3 senatorial districts of Katsina state.

As part of efforts to ensure that orphans and vulnerable children in parts of Northern Nigeria access and utilize comprehensive and coordinated services and are able to realize their full rights, WOFAN commenced implementation of  a project tagged “STEER”- in 10 communities of Gwarzo LGA in Kano State at the beginning of October, 2014.

WOFAN in an effort to ensure household food security partnered with CANDEL an agro-imput supplier, to mobilize Musawa LGA Farmers of Katsina State into large scale improved rice production. 

WOFAN marks Nigeria’s  53^rd  anniversary by Training  500 Women from the  34 LGAs of Katsina state on Post Harvest Handling and  vegetable preservation and processing and also making soap from Groundnut oil sludge to improve family income and reduce wastages on a Waste to wWealth Campaign Project for Women.

First lady Katsina State- Hajia Fatima Shema, donates income generation items to women in Katsina State in the Joint Economic Empowerment Programme between WOFAN and Katsina State Government.

In an annual end of year coalition meeting (December 2014), WOFAN with targeted partners and health workers from the Ward units of over 200 communities across 3 states of Kano, Bauchi, Katsina and Sokoto,

Business opportunities for mobile food vendors and small-holder business women got a major lift in Katsina State recently, when the Katsina State First Lady, Hajia (Dr) Fatima Ibrahim Shema joined launched Alfaharin Mata,

R-Box is a conservation tillage rice production technology pack that was researched and developed by the CANDEL Company in 2003. To aid food security of rural dwellers

WOFAN and  Katsina Govt Train 150  Women on Production and Presentation of Pastries and confectionaries to enhance Women  enterprise  and vocational  skills in Daura senatorial Zone of Katsina state.

 With the present context of climate change already affecting rural farmers mostly in the aspect of production and shelter, WOFAN has carefully outlined its key approaches

 All roads led to THE WOFAN ICT center on Friday 6th March 2015 for the opening ceremony and orientation exercise to introducing  young school levers, youths , women and girls especially from the farmers family and less privileged homes  to appreciating computer and effective use of ICT to provide opportunities for them

 WOFAN & IITA-Kano collaborate to disseminate improved variety cowpea and soyabeans among rural farmers in Kano and Katsina States of Nigeria

World AIDS Day Activities

The media and a number of NGOS and the general public were invited to participate in the joint rally and peaceful procession organized by WOFAN, Society for Family health (SFH)- Kano,

Considering the fact that clean water is a luxury that remains out of the reach of many especially in rural areas and going by the  2014 world water day theme ”water and Energy” WOFAN, used the occasion