The Social Welfare and Community Development Department assist the Assembly to formulate and implement social welfare and community development policies within the framework of national policy.
The Department:
(a) assist to maintain specialized residential services in the districts;
(b) assist to organize community development programmes to improve and enrich rural life through: Literacy and adult education classes; 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; teaching deprived or rural women in home management and child care
(c) facilitate community-based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities;
(d) assist and facilitate provision of community care services including: registration of persons with disabilities; assistance to the aged; personal. social welfare services; hospital welfare services; assistance to street children, child survival and development; and socio-economic and emotional stability in families;
(e) facilitate the registration and supervision of non-governmental organizations and their activities in the district;
(f) assist to organize community development programmes to improve and enrich rural life through: Literacy and adult education classes; 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; teaching deprived or rural women in home management and child care