The Syrian crisis has reached an unwelcome milestone, with 10 years having passed since peaceful protests against President Bashar Assad's government first began in March of 2011.
Those protests sparked a full-blown civil war that has killed around half a million people and displaced half the pre-war population of 23 million, 5 million of whom are now refugees.
Mike Seawright, the founder and executive director of Relief Aid, spoke to Susie Ferguson.