Mahmoud and his wife were living with their four sons in one of the old suburbs of Aleppo.

Ihab Azizi and his wife Rania Aswad have two children. One is two years old and the other is 20 days old, having just been born.

Zahida and her husband Faisal Alkhaled were living with their family in Suran in the Hama district.

Rose and her family were living near Homs in a village called Karm Cham Cham. She was married and had two children, one who was studying in Year Six and the other who was four years old and hadn’t yet started school.

Previously, Micheline lived in Homs with her parents and her brother.  Her father worked as a joiner in the building.

Aysha is a young 21 year old girl studying at a university in Turkey. She left Syria in 2013 with her family following the war.