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Rural Mothers centre
Rural Mother Centre Rural Mother's Centre (RMC) is an important poverty alleviation programme of the DSS specially designed for rural women. The project has been implemented through 6 phases in collaboration with the RSS Programme of the Department. With the financial assistance of the World Bank and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), a diversified project under family welfare sector, is implemented in order to integrate the rural women into the development activities including family planning and other development activities. Objectives of RMC Assist the rural poor women by giving them micro-credit for their self-employment generation and to promote the habit of mobilizing savings among them Make the target women aware of the importance and benefit of small family and motivate them to keep the size of their families small through adopting population control measures The landless, poor, asset less, destitute, handicapped and disadvantaged groups are to be organized through establishing Mothers' Centre and help them to improve their socio-economic condition Provide professional and vocational training to the target women in order to increase their productive and economic capability Provide informal education and training on health and nutrition, mother and child care, sanitation, neat and cleanliness, use of safe drinking water, literacy, social forestry, and other aspects of social development to improve the living standard of the target women.