Life will never be same again for children caught in the cross fire

Farida Hadi with her grandsons Ali and Walid Mohamed as their mother Wajra Ali looks on at the Alicia Keys Bomu Hospital inChangamwe, Mombasa. PHOTOS: FILE/STANDARD]

Kenya: On the night of July 11, Farida Ali looked around her house in Port Reitz, Mombasa and realised she needed a refill. Her reserves of fresh water were running low.

Her son, Fahad, had just returned home with a company pick-up. Farida, like any mother would do, sent her son out for a quick errand. Together, they loaded empty jerry-cans onto the pick-up. Unknown to her, in a few hours, water would be the least of her worries.