 The Maraban Rideau community in Chikun Kaduna State is donating free safe space to the Beauda Referral Center for Women and Girls Survivors for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, SGBV. International Alerts and Global Peace Development are partnering to reduce SGBV rates and provide local justice. It's a safe space for women and girls, a community of Maraban Rideau in Chikun Local Government. This safe space, it could serve as a referral space for them where from there they can be able to get reference to other places that they can get counseling and then also if it's a case that involves for them to be referred to the police station or other agencies that is going to be done at that place. So International Alerts in collaboration with Global Peace has been able to train first responders in this community that are providing first responding services to persons that have been affected especially when it comes to gender-based violence. So this safe space is going to be manned by these first responders that have been trained. There are dialogue facilities that have been trained so these people will be providing psychosocial and psychological support to victims or survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in this community. Village head of Kundasa Community, Maraban Rideau, Chikun Local Government area of Kaduna State, Outa Al-Kaslissi, Warns of Kidnapping and Criminal Activity, suggesting the establishment of a safe space to reduce such issues. A bandit who forced them away from their old settlement, some other settlement, more than 10 with their wives, children and those many of them lost their their their colleagues. Fathers, many of them, they are saw widows. Many of them are charged a bit because they lost their family, their fathers. They are they have not going, they have not going forward again. They cannot enter bush so that we can farm and get a product of something that we can eat ourselves. We cannot have a free release send and freedom in where we are in Chikun Local Government area. A space that is that will be more befitting for women to be able to use as a safe haven in this community. So they have given us a sure where they are going to be allocating for us to be able to use. And the most important thing is that this space that will be donated will be donated for permanent use of these women. With the women are going to manage, they are going to be using it and it's going to be something that they will continue to use and sustain for them to have a sustained place where there's continuity in the development that women get in this community. And then also to get psychosocial and psychological support for persons that have been affected. And it is also going to serve as a space for women to discuss peace and security issues that are of importance to them and for them to also be able to strategize other opportunities that are available for them for inclusion in decision making processes in their community.