A Long Walk to Water

Based on Salva's true story, Salva was one of the 3,800 Sudanese "missing boys" airlifted to the USA since the mid-1990s.

Before leaving Africa, Salva's life was one of the painful tragedies. Farewelling in the war with his family, forced to run through hundreds of miles of enemy territory, he overcame hunger, animal attacks and disease, finally the safety of about 150 boys in Kenya . Salva moved to northern New York State where he studied English and had resources to go on to college. After all, he returned to the home of the southern Sudan and established a base to set up a deep well in a remote village that urgently needs clean water. This beautiful story about Salva's life lined with the story of Near, Near is a young girl living in one of the villages today.

Talking at your school: Linda Sue is sorry that we will not arrange a school visit or Skype in the near future.

If your school is interested in learning more about the long walk to the water, she strongly urges you to use Skype or Illustrator Jim Abberb. As he explained the original version that appeared in the newspaper series, Jim knows all the stories of Salva. He also wrote and demonstrated several other wonderful books.

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The survival factor of water is traveling by the long-term Baxter Hager's book "Walking in the Long Water" at Linda Su Park. El Salvador faced repeated challenges of war and departed from the family and the environment with a long and dangerous journey with Central African Republic. We talked about Nya's girl Nya who lives in the southern part of Sudan and barefoot a large plastic container in a few hours every day and then return home everyday. Her family moved to the bottom of the lake near the house in the dry season and she had to dig water. When the war came to Salva school, he and other classmates were forced to leave the class for a nearby battle. Then the teacher of Salva said to them, "They will enter the village" and say "Go to the jungle" and "Leave the village".

In this lesson, we summarize the tale of the connection from Sudan, between Salva and Nya, a long walk to the water. Salva's story began with an eleven-year-old boy who walked to the refugee camp through the desert when his village was destroyed in war. After gaining the opportunity to go to the United States, he finally found a team dug in Sudan inspired by his father's illness caused by dirty water. Nya's life will expand mainly to go to the pond and draw water until the monkey foundation digs a well in her town.