About World Social Work Day
World Social Work Day is a celebration that aims to highlight the achievements of social work, raise the visibility of social services for the future of societies, and to defend social justice and human rights.
Every year, World Social Work Day is celebrated on the third Tuesday of March, it is a celebration that has become a highpoint in the social work calendar with social workers all over the world celebrating and promoting the contributions of the profession to individuals, families, communities and wider society.
The first World Social Work Day was celebrated in 2007 under the theme “Social Work -Making a World of Difference”.
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