Below are some list of social welfare services expected to be addressed in 21century and with hope to ease your mind, the content is purely US a superpower from which Nigeria drawn her models of governing.
For a nation to be considered as Welfare State, some requirements must be fulfilled which they are tailored towards ensuring well-being and easing the condition of less opportune citizens of the state.
■ To find homes for parentless children.
■ To rehabilitate people who are addicted to alcohol or drugs.
■ To treat those with emotional difficulties.
■ To make life more meaningful for older adults.
■ To provide vocational rehabilitation services to persons with a physical or mental disability.
■ To meet the financial needs of the poor.
■ To rehabilitate juveniles and adults who have
committed criminal offenses.
■ To end all types of discrimination and oppression.
■ To provide services to veterans, including those suffering from traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
■ To provide child-care services for parents who work outside the home.
■ To counteract violence in families, including child abuse and spouse abuse.
■ To fulfill the health and legal exigencies of those in financial need.
■ To counsel individuals and groups experiencing a wide variety of personal and social difficulties.
■ To provide services to people with AIDS and to their families and friends.
■ To provide recreational and leisure-time services to all age groups.
■ To educate and provide socialization experiences to children who have a cognitive disability or an emotional disorder.
■ To serve families struck by such physical disasters as fires and tornadoes.
■ To provide adequate housing for the homeless.
■ To provide programs that support and enhance the normal growth and development of all children and adults.
■ To provide vocational training and employment opportunities to the unskilled and unemployed.
■ To meet the special needs of people of color, migrant workers, and other minority groups.
■ To empower individuals, groups, families, organizations, and communities to improve their circumstances.
Judgementally not sentimentally Nigeria is not a welfare state, as most of the above mentioned requirements are absent or low in provision.
Moreover the little efforts made in the process of providing wellbeing to the less privileged individuals is either divert or embezzled by the bodies responsible for sharing it to the claimants.
The only way out of such cruelty is to served the offenders with harsh law system, and extra resources need to be pumped by both government and other philanthropists into the system for meeting the global expectations.
Why bothering oneself with criterias which are not realistic to the communities in question. We the African or Nigerians were always yearning for what does not fit our communal living.
Originally Africans are extended family oriented, and every social security and protection for a man was source and realises from family and/or community he belongs to.
The system is simply self-help in nature were you scratch my back and I will scratch yours in case of need. However, child will pay back the gratification he received at childhood to his parents and community members.
The best way to address the African problem is to enhance the capacity of families with which they attended their social, cultural and economic responsibilities in amicable manner.
In any circumstances where an individual households can not meet their families sustenance, it will lead to low level of productivity and crime will be availed.
Thus, it will make things better if African countries or Nigeria in specific make a U turn to the old formats for social welfare services.
✍📬 From the wall of Welfare.
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