welfare work
Charitable community assistance
Welfare work is organized efforts to improve the well-being of disadvantaged groups—the poor, unemployed, elderly, or disabled.
The term typically refers to services provided by governments, charities, or employers: She spent her career in welfare work, helping families access housing and food assistance.
In early twentieth-century usage, it often meant company-sponsored programs for employees.
- social servicesPublic aid programs
- literacy programsInitiatives teaching reading skills
- mental health servicesTreatment for psychological conditions
- food banksDonation-based hunger relief centers
- soup kitchenFacility feeding the poor
homeless shelter · charity · shelters · neighborhood revitalization · foster care · grassroots organizing · disability support · crisis intervention · case management · hospice care · elder care · legal aid services · adult education · public health campaigns · volunteerism · helping hands · vocational training · job training
- war reliefwar relief, relief funds, relief efforts, relief agencies, emergency relief
- sevadana, karma yoga, charitable trusts, donations, endowments
- humanitarian aidaid, aid organizations, disaster relief, aid agencies, emergency aid
- Buddhist servicedana, almsgiving, alms giving, alms, meditation aid
welfare workexploitation
Selfish use of others
oppression · abuse · human trafficking · labor exploitation · predatory lending
welfare workcommercial enterprise
Profit-seeking organization
capitalism · entrepreneurship · venture capitalism · rent-seeking
welfare, work, works, worked, working, worker, workers, workable, workman