The family relied on aid to get by, but about six months ago the UNHCR and World Food Programme conducted a vulnerability assessment and concluded that around 30% of refugees can meet their own needs. That resulted in a targeted aid campaign, and Mariam's family was excluded. There is a process to appeal the exclusion, which Mariam's family says is why she made repeated visits to a UNHCR registration center in Tripoli. She tried talking to UNHCR registration but they just lied and mocked her.
Here is what she said: "I said to them if you don't give me anything where am I going to get it from?" Mariam continues. "I am going to set myself on fire, how am I going to feed my children? Feel my pain, feel what's in my heart, feel that I have four children."
Do you think what the mother did was necessary?
What do you think should be done to the UNHCR employees that mocked her?
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This is a big topic that needed more explanation by you. That might explain the lack of replies.
I agree.