SOCIAL WELFARE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Facilitates community-based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities.

• Registration of persons with disabilities;
• Assistance to the elderly;
• Personal social welfare services;
• Hospital welfare services;
• Assistance to street children, child survival and development;
• Socio-economic and emotional stability in families;

Assist and facilitate provision of community care services including:

Assist in maintaining specialised residential services in the districts;

 Facilitates the registration and supervision of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and their activities in the district;

Justice administration – assist children and adults in contact and conflict with the law;

Register and supervise early childhood development centres;

Assist to organize community development programmes to improve and enrich standard of living through:

• Organize literacy and adult education programmes;
• Mobilize voluntary contributions and communal labour for the provision of facilities and services such as water, schools, libraries, community centres and public places of convenience;
• Teach deprived women in home management, and child care and offer employable and sustainable skills training for the youth.
• Promote and provide alternative livelihood empowerment skills for the deprived in the communities.

• Promote entrepreneurial skills, business support services and linkages to financial institutions to beneficiaries of skills training programme
• Mobilise and train voluntary leaders and community-based organisations as change agents in the communities.