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United Nations and World Food Program

: A portrait of a mother with her arms wrapped around a child, their eyes wide, according to Huffington Post Canada. A beige United Nations refugee agency tent, flames burning out the sides, and "help us'' written in blue across the sky. An idyllic lakeside scene complete with palm trees and flying birds. Last fall, the World Food Program ran out of money to help feed the 80,000 people who live at Zaatari, a camp about 10 kilometres from the Syrian border that was set up in the early days of the war. Without the prepaid Mastercards with the $28 U.S. per person, per month, to buy food at the two official supermarkets in camp, people pulled their children out of school so they could work for grocery money and rates of child marriage rose as a way for families to provide for their daughters. Young Syrian refugees play in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, near the city of Mafraq, Jordan, on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.