At the same time, the movement's local branches work to resolve specific problems that women are experiencing in their oblasts. The movement's primary programs involve medicine, alternative education, children and assistance for women farmers. Part of the children's program involved placing orphans with 300 farm families in the Krasnodar Region. Russia currently has an unprecedented number of homeless children, and the underlying idea of placing children in farmers' homes was to give them a place to put down roots and to prevent them from becoming cut off from society. Giving the children ownership of plots of land was an important part of implementing this idea.
Members also work to set up camps for rural children, with mixed success.
An attempt to create a camp for Bryansk area children, who had suffered from the Chernobyl catastrophe, failed because of high taxes. But farmers in the Novgorod Region opened an art studio for local children and have organized touring shows of the children's drawings. The women support any initiatives that allow their children to expand their world beyond the bounds of their own farm. The Novgorod IMRW also arranged for free medical check-ups for women and children by Moscow doctors from the Broken Flower Foundation. The doctors have agreed to conduct the check-ups for free, and the farmers are willing to pay the doctors' travel expenses, but neither the Ministry of Health nor the Ministry of Social Welfare was able to provide the specially equipped bus required for the program.