Louisa Medhurst works as a humanitarian adviser for DFID. She is based in Beirut, Lebanon, from where she builds up a picture of the humanitarian situation in Syria to advise what the UK’s humanitarian response to it should be.

This enables UK support though international humanitarian organisations to provide assistance including food, water and medical supplies to those in need inside Syria.

Louisa studied International Relations and Peace Studies and then Law with Human Rights at university. Since then, she's worked all over the world, helping deliver aid and coordinating humanitarian responses throughout Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Louisa says “It is very upsetting seeing children and families who have been uprooted, who have had to leave their homes and who are living in refugee camps.