Community work

Advocacy. Community. Impact.

Across countries and communities, one commitment has remained constant: creating spaces where people can be heard, supported and given opportunities to move forward.

Across borders

What experience became in action.

A legacy of community service

SplitRoots Charitable Foundation

Formerly BARF

Earlier organized community-development work forms an important part of Salmat's service history. The historical BARF website remains a useful archive of that earlier chapter.

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Building community in Canada

SplitRoots Community Centre

Current Canadian community work centres belonging, newcomer support, connection, practical resources, workshops, events and opportunities to move forward.

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How impact is presented

Proof before praise.

This archive is intentionally documentary. Projects, photographs, dates, stories and future impact figures will only be published when they can be supported. The work should speak for itself.

From advocacy to building community.

Experience taught me that sometimes helping people means speaking up. Sometimes it means creating a program, opening a door, sharing information, bringing people together or simply creating a space where someone feels that they belong.

Documented moments
Women participating in a community workshop
Women advocacy group holding Balance for Better signs
Salmat Olatuyi at an international event in Lebanon
The work continues

No chapter was the final chapter.

Nigeria was not the end. Lebanon was not the end. Canada is not the end. The work continues through community, writing, speaking, coaching, advocacy and what comes next.

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