TheNational Orientation Agency NOA and United Nation Children Fund UNICEF hasurged community facilitators in Kaduna State to support efforts to preventViolence Against Children VAC in the state. Thecall was made during the opening of a 4 day sensitisation workshop in Zaria forcommunity facilitators on ending violence against children. Socialmobilisation officers, health educators, Civil Society groups and otherrelevant stakeholders were participants at the workshop. Thestate Director of NOA, Zubair Galadima Soba said the agency was concerned withviolence meted out against children and was committed towards ensuring such actcame to an end. Hesaid there was need for proper reorientation of people in order to practicegood values of protecting children from harm. GaladimaSoba noted that some of the violence meted against children was as a result ofparents and caregivers’ negligence or unmindful behaviour towards the care oftheir children. Heurged the participants to engage meaningfully in the workshop by properlydiscussing on issues of VAC and draft guidelines on how to prevent and respondto such issues.