Salimatou Fatty has wide of experience in the nonprofit and voluntary sector. She studied Gender and Development at Management Development Institute. Currently, she is a Law student at the University of The Gambia. She is the founder of Salimatou Foundation for Education (www.salimatoufoundation.org).She is an activist/campaigns for quality education and gender equality.

Ms. Fatty has represented her country in international trainings and conferences. She is globally recognized as Education and Gender advocate, based in Gambia. She was the Global Youth Ambassador for “A World At School”, an International Organization, whose goal is to achieve universal education for all children. She is an ambassador for several international organizations to The Gambia and a member of African Youth Commission. She interned at ActionAid International-The Gambia. Salimatou Fatty is a trained Peace Educator.

Salimatou is passionate about quality education for all and has participated in many activities that are gear towards global development. She is an award winning activist and received several honors. She won “African Leadership Award” by Independent Pan African Youth Parliament in September 2016, Nominated for African Youth Award under “Advocate of the year” in December 2016, she was named “Girl of the Month” in September 2016 by Girls Pride Circle, an international organization that recognized the effort of young girls who are doing amazing job in their various countries, she was named “Young Personality of the week” in March 2016 by Young People in
the Media, a youth led organization in The Gambia that recognized the work of amazing young people who are doing an impact in their community through media.

Salimatou is a Barrack Obama Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI RLC) Alumni. She was named “African Woman of the Day” by MTV Ghana on 3rd March 2017. Early 2017, she represented West Africa at the first “Community of Democracy Youth Forum” in Taiwan(Taipei) Her foundation is a right to education charitable foundation that is working to ensure people have affordable and access to quality education. The Salimatou foundation for Education works on several issues in achieving quality education such as, career development, mentorship, networking and partnership, outreaches programs etc.

In 2017 Africa Youth Awards named her among the 100 Most Influential Young Africans, an initiative instituted to promote African youth movements and achieving and also restoring excellence in the works of young people across Africa.