1. To promote Social Welfare Services and aim to safeguard social cohesion and social solidarity. 2. To promote and provide social protection, achieve social inclusion, and promote equal opportunities for all citizens to combat poverty and social exclusion and to promote the interests of individuals, families, and communities. 3. To promote and safeguard every individual΄s right to a decent standard of living; 4. To promote and provide vocational training to public assistance beneficiaries in order to enter/reenter the labor market, thus achieving their social inclusion; 5. To promote and provide support to the family unit so family members may effectively perform their role; 6. To support families and individuals who are facing social problems; 7. To provide protection and care to children and other vulnerable groups of people.