The village of Al Samaha’s population consists exclusively of single and widowed women, according to Al Arabiya. The 303 women who live there subsist on a government program that has existed since 1998 and aims to help women who suddenly became breadwinners for their families due to divorce or the death of a partner by providing them with plots of agricultural land and fertilizers. Each family is also provided with a home and loans to get their farms up and running. The program is open only to single women; government support is withdrawn if they remarry.