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The international community has not been keeping up with the Internet needs in the camps, she added. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a statement in an address to the U.N. General Assembly in September about wanting to wire refugee camps, Maitland said, but the UNHCR doesn’t have the budget for the ongoing costs of cyber-cafes or mobile Internet access — the refugees, who are legally prohibited from formal employment, must pay mobile phone bills out of their own pocket