In return, they provide free food and shelter and sometimes pay the families a monthly stipend.

For two years, he hardly made any money, a tiny stipend, but he apprenticed with this incredible housing developer named Tasneem Saddiqui.

Through another programme, girls living in rural areas are being given free uniforms and textbooks, with a monthly stipend, until they reach the sixth grade.

b Beneficiaries are entitled to a round trip aeroplane ticket and a stipend of US 175 for each day of attendance, plus two extra days for travel.

For example, in Bangladesh the launching of a nationwide stipend programme for rural girls in 1994 had a significant impact on their enrolment, which increased from 27 to 54 per cent.28

Several countries now facilitate access to secondary schooling, in particular through conditional cash transfer programs, which offer a stipend to poor families whose children regularly attend school. These programs have successfully increased secondary school enrollment in countries like Mexico, Ecuador, Bangladesh, and Cambodia.

The Punjab province (the largest province in Pakistan with more than 50 of the population of the country) has introduced a scheme under which girl students in grades 6 8 will be given a stipend and free textbooks as an incentive to retain them in schools.

Instead, policymakers must find ways to strengthen the incentives for parents to send their daughters to school. In countries where the family s cost of schooling girls is lowered either by a no fee policy or by a stipend for girls who enroll in school, girls enrollment rate increases.

One jihadist who trained in al Qaeda s camps, and met bin Ladin, told me that upon his return from Afghanistan, he was invited to meet al Ahmar s associates and was given a monthly stipend. During a 1999 trial of Yemenis convicted of kidnapping 16 Europeans, it emerged that the group s ringleader called al Ahmar during the ordeal.

The Ministry of Science and Technology continues its special scholarship program in which undergraduate students in engineering and exact sciences can receive a yearly stipend of 8 to 10 thousands NIS (about 2,000), in return for 100 hours of service in the National Council for the Promotion of Women in Science and Technology programs, aimed at promoting women in science.

We are also making serious efforts to help the internally displaced, aiding some 20,000 ex combatants from violent groups that have been reintegrated into society and 33,000 families in the Guardabosques forest protection programme, who are paid a stipend to give up drugs cultivation and who are now helping both in the recovery of tropical forests as well as keeping their areas free of illegal drugs.