General Functions and Responsibilities
(a) Facilitates community-based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities.
(b) Assist and facilitate provision of community care services including:
- 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;
(c) Assist in maintaining specialized residential services in the districts;
(d) Facilitates the registration and supervision of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their activities in the district;
(e) Justice administration – assist children and adults in contact and conflict with the law;
(f) Register and supervise early childhood development centres;
(g) 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.
- Mobilize and train voluntary leaders and community-based organizations as change agents in the communities.
(h) Provide extension services to governmental and non-governmental organizations:
- Facilitate the rollout of the Child Protection tool kits through community engagement and dialogue.
Vulnerable Emergency Hotline: 0599120569/0534036159
