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Sheltered from the harsh midday sun by the tent she now calls home, Maria Moreno bursts into tears recalling how she and her six children fled their native Venezuela a month ago for the border city of Maicao in northern Colombia.

“For three days, my children went without absolutely anything,” she said, as she breastfed her seven-month-old son in a camp run by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR.

Maria Moreno at a UNHCR camp in Maicao, Colombia. Photo: Steven Grattan