Our team

full-time staff and more than volunteers, led from and governed by a board of trustees.

Leadership

Executive Director.

Fatima Mohammed Habib
Fatima Mohammed Habib
Founder and Executive Director
Orphans and IDPs are not statistics, but children with the same rights to love, care, and opportunity as any other. Advocacy for their well-being is an investment in a just and compassionate world.

Born in 1999, she was educated at Abande Memorial School in Maiduguri and Maitama Model Secondary School in Abuja, then read Political Science at the University of Maiduguri. She founded the foundation at fourteen while still in junior secondary school, and has led it ever since.

Her entry into public advocacy was the Bring Back Our Girls campaign in the North East. Since then her work on girls' education and gender-based violence has been profiled by The Guardian Nigeria, Daily Trust, Vanguard and Leadership. She has spoken at TEDx Baze University on humanitarian work in conflict zones, and is an alumna of the YALI Regional Leadership Centre.

In October 2025 she was nominated for The Future Awards Africa Prize for Community Action.

Programme staff

The people who run the work.

Programme leads, supported by full-time staff across the four programmes.

Salisu Ali Dawa
Programme Manager Salisu Ali Dawa

Oversees delivery across all four programmes and signs the foundation's public statements.

Advocacy is the bridge between suffering and solutions. When we advocate for the rights of the orphaned and displaced, we build a better world for everyone.
Fatime Mahamat Abdoulaye
Gender-Based Violence Officer Fatime Mahamat Abdoulaye

Leads GBV response, counselling, legal aid and survivor support, and the safe spaces programme for children.

True compassion is measured by how we lift the most vulnerable among us, children, orphans, and those displaced by the forces of injustice. In their suffering, we see the reflection of our shared humanity.
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Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Adamu Abdulhamid

Measures programme outcomes and compiles the figures that appear in the annual report.

FG
WASH Officer Faruk Gangaran

Borehole siting and drilling supervision, pump and tank installation, community operator training, and the periodic water quality checks that follow.

FY
Education Facilitator Fatima Shuaib Yakub

Scholarships, the Illmu project in displacement camps, JAMB and WAEC support, and the school renovation partnerships.

FS
Partnership Facilitator Fatima Muhammad Sangayama

Relationships with ministries, corporates and partner NGOs.

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Creative Director Aisha Babagana

Communications and campaigns across Facebook, X, TikTok and Instagram.

Photographs for the remaining staff to be supplied.

In the field

Volunteers and medical personnel.

More than volunteers work alongside the staff.

Medical outreach
Medical outreach Field officers and volunteers consulting with residents during a health outreach.
The medical camp
The medical camp Part of the team of 35 volunteers and 10 assistants deployed during the Maiduguri floods.
Exam support
Exam support Students preparing for JAMB and WAEC with funded materials and mentoring.
Board of Trustees

Who holds us to account.

AHVF is governed by a board of trustees named on its certificate of incorporation. The board chair writes the opening message in every annual report.

Board Chair Dr. Mohammed Kyari Dikwa mni, DSc, FCNA, FCTI Also Founder and President of the Al-Ansar Foundation.
Trustee Hadiza Ahmed Umar
Trustee Hajia Laraba Shuaibu
 and other board members
Join them

Volunteers are the backbone of every outreach AHVF runs. Medical professionals, teachers, drivers, translators and logistics support are all needed.