Our battle with raising quadruplets while on the run

Massaya,Tagri and their children                                           Photo: Courtesy

Having quadruplets is never easy - but imagine trying to look after four new-born babies in a refugee camp.

Massaya Ag Iliyass: I am a farmer from Mole in central Mali, and I have one wife Tagri Walet Tokeye. Our lives turned upside down when one day we had to gather up our six children and a few blankets, and flee from what we knew was home. Three of the children could walk - the others had to be carried. A friend had lent us a donkey and the younger children took turns sitting on its back. We walked for five days and five nights. It was a very long way and exhausting. We had to walk slowly so we wouldn't tire them out, and we rested as much as we could.