The eldest left his home at 14 to find work to support the family.

The second eldest was drafted to serve in the Croation War - a precursor for Kosovo. 

The first brother to leave during the war before the borders closed. 

It was an abandoned baby that ultimately ‘saved’ this brother at the closed borders. 

Bastri was the first to discover their dead father and rushed to bury the body at night before the soldiers returned.

Sniper bullet holes in his sister’s house, shot two centimeters above Ferki’s head, remind him of his family’s luck. 

The youngest helped reunite two abandoned babies with their mother on the other side of the border. 

Two days after major abdominal surgery, their mom was kicked out of the hospital with no medication.

The eldest, unable to run with a debilitated mother and a 2 year old son, experienced some of the most terrifying situations.