SOCIAL WELFARE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

The Social Welfare and Community Development Department shall assist the
Assembly to formulate and implement social welfare and community development
policies within the framework of national policy.
(2) The Department shall
(a) facilitate community-based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities;
(b) assist and facilitate provision of community care services including:
(i) registration of persons with disabilities;
(ii) assistance to the aged;
(iii) personal. social welfare services;
(iv) hospital welfare services;
(v) assistance to street children, child survival and development; and
(vi) socio-economic and emotional stability in families;
(c) assist to maintain specialized residential services in the districts;
(d) facilitate the registration and supervision of non-governmental
organizations and their activities in the district;
(e) assist to organize community development programmes to improve and
enrich rural life through:
(i) Literacy and adult education classes;
(ii) Voluntary contribution and communal labour for the provision of
facilities and services such as water, schools, library, community
centres and public places of convenience or;
(iii) teaching deprived or rural women in home management and
child care.