Social Welfare, Special Education, Non-formal, Literacy and Human Rights Department, Balochistan.
Social Welfare, Special Education and Human Rights Department, Balochistan was established in 1962 with aims at providing better Social Environment by helping the neglected, handicapped and socially disadvantaged people.
This aim is achieved through use of techniques and methods, which are designed to enable individuals, groups and communities to solve their problems and felt needs through cooperative actions relying on their own resources.
Social welfare generally denotes the full range of organized activities of voluntary and governmental agencies that seek to prevent, alleviate, or contribute to the solution of recognized social problems, or to improve the well-being of individuals, groups, or communities.
“In its narrowest sense, social welfare includes those nonprofit functions of society, public or voluntary, which are clearly aimed at alleviating distress and poverty or at ameliorating the conditions of the casualties of society”. (Dolgoff,R. & D.Feldstein) (1980):
United Nations Statement for Social Welfare:
“Social welfare as an organized function is regarded as a body of activities designed to enable individuals, families, groups and communities to cope with the social problems of changing conditions. But in addition to and extending beyond the range of its responsibilities for specific services, social welfare has a further function within the broad area of a country’s social development. In this larger sense, social welfare should play a major role in contributing to the effective mobilization and deployment of human and material resources of the country to deal successfully with the social requirements of change, thereby participating in nation-building.”
Vision of the Department:
“A socially and economically empowered society in Balochistan where the socially disadvantaged in particular, have access to an equitable social welfare system, and their wellbeing is protected through effective and citizen-centered service delivery.”
This department aims to provide social welfare, special education, literacy and non-formal education services to the people of Balochistan, in particular the vulnerable segments of society, through strengthening public-private partnerships; increased inter-departmental coordination; enhanced institutional capacities; and effective communication aimed at social change.
Functions of Social Welfare, Special Education and Human Rights Department.
- Service delivery: removing disabling conditions, regaining normal functioning; needy groups, under-privileged sector in society, minimum standard of service provision, emergency relief, ad hoc basis, remedy gross hardships and human sufferings, minimum state intervention, private and family care, alleviate abnormalities and other social services;
- positive & preventive: early prevent abnormal behavior and conditions; creating new conditions; eliminate causes of problems, research analysis on causes for effective prevention, prevention is better than cure, screening service, early identification, systematic planning, universal services…etc.;
- developmental: improving situations, development of individual and society, constructive planning, social investment, awareness on social responsibility, develop potentials and new capacities, growth towards mature and responsible citizenship;
- supportive: achieving objectives of other sectors in society; mutual benefits among various service, support services, education and continuous training, community support; inter-related nature of various social policies; better effectiveness and efficiency, economy;
functions of social welfare is largely determined by philosophy and value preferences of the government, social and political situation and inter-related functions of services, complementary roles of services at different levels.
Mission: “Our mission is to foster social development, provide welfare services, promote gender equality, and ensure the social inclusion of marginalized groups.”