Role Of Social Work In Poverty

Role of social workers

Social works has a vital role to play in addressing some of the contemporary social problems like poverty play a key role in alleviating poverty. Poverty is a major concern for social workers because its results in secondary effects such as marginalization, social exclusion, loss of right to self-determination among other effects. At the micro level, one of the major concern of the social worker is how to asses risk. Risk assessment and the ability to work creatively and innovatively to help people understand their situation as well as guide them in turning around their poverty status are one of the reasons why poverty is a social work concern. At times the role of social workers involves making tough judgments about risk to individuals and at times they have to use their ability and influence to protect the victims of poverty from themselves or from others At the mezzo, level, the social work has a vital role to play community development and this requires skills in community

Some of the reason of the high prevalence of poverty in the country can be attributed to a myriad of factors some of which include indiscipline, corruption and the lack of political will by the nation. However some causes from the social point of view are the inability of the government to issue policies that will tend to reduce poverty and tackle underdevelopment.

Due to the level of development and poverty in the country, lots of anti-social activities have now become more prominent such as child labor, child trafficking, drug trafficking, prostitutions among others. Other problems associated with the high prevalence of poverty in Nigeria are the underdevelopment of the people socially, technologically and economically. The average highly trained manpower is usually redundant after their training. The policies and programs created by the government to alleviate poverty have been perceived to be