The word social means a community in which living organisms survive, either they survive themselves, or depend upon other natural resources. Social work is a form of discipline that is performed by a number of communities to help bring a change within the environment. Social justice is another name for social work. It is a developmental step towards the betterment of a community or a society.

Social work as charity work

This community of social workers collects money from different organizations and groups of people, and helps poor people deal with poverty. Different NGO's are working and collecting funds in order to eliminate poverty from humanity. The practice of charity is an old tradition and is found in every religion being practiced throughout the world.

Who are social workers?

Social workers are professional workers, who work for the basic standard facilities provided to human beings. This includes managing their daily lives, their disabilities, and provides services and awareness about illness, death and hygiene. All the care and assistance is their moral responsibility. Social working communities depend upon legal aid, work with government assistance, and help making them a part of a healthy world.

Social work as a profession

To become a professional social worker one requires a proper degree, and they should be professionally registered. The degree should be a Bachelor's degree or a diploma in social work. The degree can be BA, BSSW and B.Sc, while the master's degree can be MA, M.Sc, MRes and few countries offer a post graduate study in this field. It has been observed that more you feel like is not enough for helping the mankind; social workers take it as a lifelong learning process.

Role of social workers

They provide mankind a variety of services like planning different events and meetings in co- ordination with different companies. They counsel effected people and provide them services like psychotherapy. They work for social welfare policies, they make the policies co- coordinating with the government authorities and then implementing them.

Research services

Different communities came into existence because of the research done by social workers. Research depends upon the human development areas, includes theories that results in proper development of a new generation and societies. Their research takes them close to mankind's problems, and they are the people who are always there to help mankind, when even blood relations are lost.