Setad Foundation Offers Incentives for More Births

Setad Foundation (Headquarters for Executing the Decree of Imam Khomeini on helping the underprivileged) will grant mothers who have their fourth child 10 million rials ($40) as a gift, plus 20 million rials ($80) worth of stock shares to the child, two-year supplemental insurance for mother and child, and 100 million rials ($400) worth of coupon for purchasing baby formula, food and diapers. 
According to Seyyed Abdollah Arjaei, an official with the Setad, the scheme dubbed “3+ Club” intends to encourage childbearing and will be piloted in Qom Province and then throughout the country. 
“A program to support 10,000 infertile couples has been designed as well: applicants who have registered at http://1542.ir/ will receive an infertility treatment grant worth 10 million rials and 100 million rials worth of loan at the interest rate of 4%,” he was quoted as saying by ILNA.