Abstract
Pakistan’s geography and its environmental and climatic change
conditions make it highly vulnerable to natural disasters. In recent years;
especially in 2015, Pakistan faced almost all major types of natural disasters, such
as flood, earthquake, heat wave, drought and tornado. This conceptual paper
provides an insight about the role of social workers in natural disasters. The social
workers can render mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery related
services to vulnerable communities and can minimize the losses, recovery time
and resources of Government at the time of emergency. Due to non-availability of
social workers, Government and International NGOs waste a lot of time and
resources to fill this gap, but, unfortunately, due to non-professionalism and no
theoretical base of social work, recovery and rehabilitation of affectees become a
distant goal in long run. A quick recovery and revival towards normal life can only
be possible if professionally skilled social workers are allowed to play their roles
effectively.
Syeda Mahnaz Hassan, Muhammad Adnan. (2016) Rebuilding lives: Natural Disasters and Role of a Social Worker in Pakistan, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 53, Issue 2.
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