The department:

• Facilitates community-based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities
  
  
• Assists and facilitate the 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;
  
  
• Assists to maintain specialized residential services in the districts;
  
  
• Facilitates the registration and supervision of non-governmental organizations and their activities in the district;
  
  
• Assist to organize community development programmes to improve and enrich rural life through:
  – Literacy and adult classes; 
  – Voluntary contribution and communal labour for the provision of facilities and services such as water, schools, library, community centers and public places of convenience or; 
  – Teaching deprived or rural women in home management and child care.