In writing this short series I’m going to be joined by someone who really knows what it means to live with uncertainty. An inspirational young woman whose life was completely uprooted when she was still a young girl. A woman who has not only survived the ordeal, but has actually found ways to turn adversity into opportunity.

Her name in Maya Ghazal. She was only 12 when the conflict came to her hometown of Damascus. Since then she has experienced fear, displacement and an intense form of isolation that – as so many of us are learning right now – can be devastating to cope with. And yet today, aged 20, she says this: