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1. Payment of Allowance to Poor Pregnant Women: Conditions of Receipt of Allowance: (a) First or Second Pregnancy Period (any one time) (b) Age 20 years or above (c) Total Monthly Income below Rs. . (E) has only settled house or lives in another place. (F) There is no agricultural land or pond for fish farming in one's own family. (G) The beneficiary must be pregnant in July. Whether the above conditions are right or not is selected by the NGO representative through a meeting through the upazila committee. The allowance is paid to the beneficiary four times at the rate of Rs. 2100 / - every six months.2. Distribution of VGD cards to poor and destitute women: Conditions for obtaining VGD cards: (a) Extremely food insecure i.e. family members often cannot get food at any time of the day due to lack of food. (B) Those who have no land or own less than 0.15 acres of land. In this case landless families will get priority. (C) The condition of the house (tent, fence, door, pillar and drainage) is very poor. (D) Families who make a living by earning meager income as daily or irregular day laborers and have no definite source of income. (E) The head of the family is a woman and there is no earning male member or any other source of income. At the upazila level, VGD women's selection committee was formed and applications were taken from poor women. The application form is sent to the Upazila Committee after verification and selection by the Union Committee. They are again selected by verification and selection. Each month 30 kg of rice is distributed to the beneficiaries through the Union Parishad. Micro-credit: All the associations registered with the Department of Women's Affairs are for poor women. Small loans are given to women in this association to support them. This loan has to be repaid in 12 monthly installments with 5% service charge. Backyard meetings on dowry awareness programs: Backyard meetings are held once a month with village women in each union. Awareness-raising activities for prevention of trafficking in women and children: In order to prevent trafficking in women and children, awareness meetings are held with the women of the villages twice a month in the unions. Prevention of Violence against Women: In order to prevent violence against women, yard meetings are held in any of the two unions every month and the signatures of women are taken.