Director
Limakatso Chisepo
Mandate & Objectives
The role of the department of Social Welfare is to alleviate
human suffering and facilitate the improvement of the
quality of life for marginalized groups and to enable these
groups to participate optimally in their personal and
community socio-economic development initiatives. The
department of Social Welfare is responsible for coordinating
all the social welfare services in the country, particularly
the development national policies for care of vulnerable
children and orphans, disability as well as coordinating and
providing technical advice to development of legislation and
guidelines for implementation of these policies. Monitoring
of the implementation of the national social welfare
strategic plan is an important function of this department
hence one of the key responsibilities is to provide
supervision to the district level and to monitor the work of
other partners such as orphanages.
Social Welfare
has two Units the one that provides general social services
such as counseling and the rehabilitation unit which
oversees the needs of disabled persons. Both units advocate
strongly for the rights of the vulnerable groups associated
with the department and are responsible for building
capacity at the community level for ensuring optimal access
of services at this level.
The Department is also responsible for collaborating with
NGO’s that provide similar services and other sector that
have a stake in the implementation of key welfare policies.
These sector include law enforcement, police; justice for
child protection and women abuse, the National University of
Lesotho for the production of social workers as well as
works and public transport in consideration of the needs of
disabled persons in the in the public arena. The main
challenges facing the department include severe shortage of
staff given the increasing demand for services, particularly
for orphans and other psychosocial support services. For
more detail see Social Welfare Services
STAFFING
PROFILE
Profession Number Vacancies
Social workers
Counsellors
Rehabilitation officers
DOCUMENTS……
• Social Welfare Policy & Strategic Plan
• Orphan & Vulnerable Children’s Policy
• National OVC Action Plan
• Child Protection Bill
• Disability Policy & Strategic Plan
• Disability Baseline Study
Contact Person:
Ms Joalane Putsoa.
Position Administrator
Telephone +266-22 322142
Fax +266-22 317206.
Email:
jayputsoa@yahoo.com
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