Asma, who is 14, is the first to spend money and the last to save it. She loves children and her friends. I cried when I read what she had written for the Facebook post.

We are afraid of catastrophe, as it is painful when a person kills others; mothers, fathers and children. It is as though the people’s consciousness are like stones. And every person with authority does what he wants.

Haneen, the 12-year-old, is outspoken and creative. She is always asking what things have not yet been invented because she says she wants to invent something that will benefit everyone.

Once, when I apologized for being late because I was at work helping the children of Yemen, she confronted me: “We are also the children of Yemen.” Here is an excerpt from her Facebook essay:

The situation is getting worse daily. Our studies have stopped, playing is forbidden. They cut off the water and electricity on all the residents. Every day, the noises get louder and louder next to us. However, I have two questions that are confusing me: How will our future be beautiful if they have destroyed Yemen? When will this war end and Yemen will be liberated and the future will be beautiful, God willing?

My children were at home on Saturday when the bombs killed more than 100 people at a Sana funeral hall. I was live on BBC Arabic speaking on behalf of Unicef about the cholera outbreak. On my way back home, I saw the lines at one hospital.