Factors causing drop outs differ for males and females.
While males drop out for economic reasons and employment, females drop out because of early marriages and the high costs of transportaion to the nearest secondary schools do not exist To solve the problem the Women's Affairs Technical Committee - Palestine, created a sponsorship program in 1997 to cover the travel costs for needy girls in order to give them the opportunity to continue their secondary education. The program aims at countering the increasing number of drop outs and early marriages among female students. She approached the Committee in order to ask it to help in supporting her daughter by paying her transportation fees between her home and the village of Tormosaya, near Ramallah, where the nearest secondary school is located. Um Morad insisted that she does not want her youngest daughter to get married early like her sisters. Intissar's Story Intissar is yet another young girl who came to our office asking for help.