Social-work
noun
1.
organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
noun
1.
any of various social services designed to alleviate the conditions of the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children
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