The National Orientation Agency NOA and United Nation Children Fund UNICEF has urged community facilitators in Kaduna State to support efforts to prevent Violence Against Children VAC in the state.
The call was made during the opening of a 4 day sensitisation workshop in Zaria for community facilitators on ending violence against children.
Social mobilisation officers, health educators, Civil Society groups and other relevant stakeholders were participants at the workshop.
The state Director of NOA, Zubair Galadima Soba said the agency was concerned with violence meted out against children and was committed towards ensuring such act came to an end.
He said there was need for proper reorientation of people in order to practice good values of protecting children from harm.
Galadima Soba noted that some of the violence meted against children was as a result of parents and caregivers’ negligence or unmindful behaviour towards the care of their children.
He urged the participants to engage meaningfully in the workshop by properly discussing on issues of VAC and draft guidelines on how to prevent and respond to such issues.
