Functions of Social Welfare & Community Development  

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• Facilitate community-based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities;

• 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;

• Assist to maintain specialized residential services in the Metro;

• Facilitate the registration and supervision of non-governmental organizations and their activities in the Metro.;

• 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.

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