Hidat

Hidat is the mother of three sons whose husband died ten years ago.

Fadi Issa Malas and Nivine Nader

Fadi and his wife Nivine have two boys.

Hanadi Al-Masri lived in Meleha, an outlying suburb to the east of Damascus which had been severely hit in 2011-2012 at the beginning of the hostilities.

Issa Malek Kubrisi

Issa Malek and his brother George are 23 and 22 years old. Their father, Malek, died in 2010 from complications of diabetes. Their mother, Josephine, is currently 56 years old.

Mohamed Marwan and his wife Lamyaa Dada have three children - the oldest Mohamed Nour, then Alaa, 24, and the youngest Jawad who is 16.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Ibrahim Alnaiemi and Hanadi

Ibrahim worked as a violinist in the suburb of Al Fardous in Aleppo with his wife Hanadi and their four children, two girls aged 17 and 12 and two boys 24 and 5.