Each of the five million Syrians who fled their homes due to the country's civil war have their own stories to tell.<br /><br />Hazar Almahmoud risked crossing the Aegean Sea for the sake of her daughter - Here she tells the story of their journey to safety<br /><br />It was Hazar Almahmoud's motherly instinct to protect her daughter which made her take extreme risks to reach safety.<br /><br />Working as a university administrator in the port city and government stronghold of Latakia, her life was turned upside down when she joined the protests against President Bashar al-Assad.
