To mark Refugee Week, Hannah McNulty meets groups of people who have fled war in Syria for a new life here in the UK. Over the last eight years, millions of families have left the country due to the ongoing conflict, just over 200 of which are now living in Cumbria and southern Scotland.
As part of a series of special reports on Syrian refugees, Hannah McNulty has been looking at some of the work volunteers are doing to help them adjust to life in Cumbria
Shireen, 21, moved to Carlisle with her mother but was forced to leave the rest of her family behind in Syria.
In the second part of our series, we met Sameer Al Assad who spent several years in a refugee camp with his wife and three children.
In the first of the series, meet Walaa who left Syria with her family when war broke out.