His disabled children were “left in the mud” by the side of the road, he adds. One by one, Sali carried each of the children onto a village bus that was already crowded with other displaced Kosovo Albanians. “My older brother walked until he was four,” Ganimete recalls. After being displaced from their home, their parents had to carry all three children around. Without their parents, she says, the three children could not have catered to their own most basic needs.