Functions:
- Supervision and coordination on official duties of Social Services Officers and Development Officers within the district.
- Identifying and preparing development projects/programs relevant to the district and supervision and implementation after having received approval.
- Collecting of important social service information/facts and directing the activities regarding collection of information.
- Supervising and operating activities of disseminating of information and news required for departmental publications.
- Organization and coordination with government//non government organizations/, within the district in respect of social service activities.
Services relevant to Social Services Department, Western Province, carried out by Social Service Officers, Development officers of 13 Divisional Secretariat Divisions in the district of Colombo:
- Making available of public aids for low income earners. (monthly).
- A sum of Rs. 250/= per single person.
- A sum of Rs. 300/= for the first dependant.
- A sum of Rs. 350/= for the second dependant.
- A sum of Rs.400/= for the third dependant
- A sum of Rs. 450/= for the fourth dependant.
- A sum of Rs. 500/= for the fifth dependant.
- Making available of aids for cancer, tubercolosius,thalesemia and leprosy.
- A sum of rs. 1000/= for each month.
- Granting of educational aids for children who deserve for educational aids still engaging in their studies from families where father being deceased, being left by father, father being disabled unable to engage in an employment or father being imprisoned.
- A sum of Rs.1000/= monthly upto G.C.E. O/L
- A sum of Rs.1500/= monthly upto G.C.E. A/L
- A sum of rs. 2500/= maximum for a family.
- Providing of equipments for low income earners afflicted with disabilities.
- Wheel chairs
- Chairs with commodes
- Tricycles
- Spectacles
- Hearing equipments
- Clutches
- Walker aids
- Air Mattresses
- Walking stick
- White cane
- Providing with equipments or self employment aids for single mothers and disabled low income earners. (By the Head of Provincial development)
- Housing aids for disabled and single mothers from low income families. (By the Head of Provincial development)
- Maintenance aids for registered elders homes in the division/ houses of disabled persons.
- Aids for heart surgeries for people in low income families (Rs. 50,000)
- An aid of Rs 50,000 for persons suffering from kidney diseases being in blood transfusion or due to be recommended for blood transfusion.
- An aid of Rs. 15,000 for requirement of commode toilets for low income disabled persons.
- Under provisions of Members of Parliament of Western Province, implementing of various programs for people receiving aids for sicknesses and disabled persons.
Mrs. U. Dushmanthi Priyangika Dharmasiri – Senior Social Services Officer, Colombo
Contact – 071-8541008