Mr. Gabriel Acolatsey
The Social Welfare and Community Development Department shall assist the Assembly to formulate and implement social welfare and community development policies within the framework of national policy.
The Department facilitates community-based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities and assists and facilitates 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;
The department also assist to maintain specialized residential services in the district and
facilitate the registration and supervision of non-governmental organizations and their activities in the district
Lastly it is the core mandate of the department to assist to organize community development programmes to improve and enrich rural life through:
i. Literacy and adult education classes;
ii. 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
iii. teaching deprived or rural women in home management and child care.
