Community Activities

Based on the strategy of the Ministry of Social Development, and its keenness to facilitate and provide all social, care and developmental services to all members of the local community to ensure the development of social protection, comprehensive social research has been activated, so that it includes all types of social, care and developmental research. Through this comprehensive research, all the needs of the Bahraini family and individuals are monitored and the best services are provided to them to ensure the advancement of the individual and society.

Social Research Philosophy:

Believing in the value of the individual and to preserve his dignity in the community, the ministry provides various services in order to reach those goals.

Objectives:

1. Monitoring the family's needs through a field visit.
2. Cooperating with the various departments of the Ministry to provide the best services needed by the families whose cases were studied.
3. Cooperate with all governmental institutions and the private sector in order to provide the best services to citizens and introduce them to the various services provided by the Ministry.

Types of social research that are studied through the community activities section:

1. Social assistance requests transferred from the Social Assistance Department / higher authorities / means of communication ... etc.
2. Checking applications for disbursement of allowance for hearing/visual/physical/mental disability...etc.
3. Requests for compensation for house fires transferred from the Social Assistance Department.
4. Pension entitlement applications transferred by the Military Pension Fund.
5. Retirement pension entitlement applications transferred by the General Organization for Social Insurance.
6. Requests for exemption / reduction / dropping of municipal fees transferred by the Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture.
7. Exceptional cases, calamities and natural disasters.
8. Study of the different cases, for example: welfare / rehabilitative / educational for governmental and private agencies.

Conditions and Criteria:

1. The applicant to benefit from the Ministry's services must be a Bahraini national.
2. The applicant to benefit from the Ministry's services must be a permanent resident in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
3. The research will conducted in the field and office, after it is followed up with the relevant official and non-governmental authorities.
4. The social research must show the reliability of the information received by the applicant compared to the official documents.
5. Fill out the application form and attach to it the required documents. (Social Assistance).

Notice:-

The Social Research Team of the Department of Community Activities is available at all Social Development Centers distributed over the four governorates of the Kingdom of Bahrain.