Community Welfare: Balancing Between Giving and Taking

Abstract

Community welfare is welfare organized by a community based on mutual assistance among people in the community. Thus, community welfare is established to guarantee that people in the community have security in life. There has been community welfare established using community’s existing capital, and community welfare enhanced by support of state organizations which can activate it to a broader extent. The social welfare promotion act (2^nd edition) B.C. 2550 has supported community welfare to move forwards, especially in community wellness. Nevertheless, the concept of community welfare will have no value at all, if it is not practically implemented, particularly in the context of community management where it is expected to cover everyone in every age range from birth to death. There have also been new types of welfare added which would lead to more new ways to create welfare from community’s original capital. Eventually, balance will take place between giving and taking among people in the community which will make the community stronger and with better quality of life.