A Long Walk to Water

"Long Walk" is a short story by Linda Sue Park issued in 2010. It includes the true story of Salva Dutt which is part of the Dinka and the lost boy of Sudan and the fictitious story of a young village which is part of the Nua tribe. Park uses this book as a platform to support the Dut project 'Water of South Sudan'

Salva Dut is an eleven-year-old boy who broke up with his family for the second Sudanese civil war during the present South Sudan war. He had to walk for a few weeks, that day he wanted to be able to find his family again. Salva also works hard to find food and water to survive while avoiding gunmen, lions and other threats. Salva took 1,500 missing men to a refugee camp near the Giro River. In his way, many people, including his uncle and some of his friends, died. Seven years later, he came to America. He lives in a family in Rochester, New York. Years later, he discovered what his father told him that most of his family survived. Later, he founded a volunteer team to build southern Sudan, well-named in South Sudan.

Nya is an eleven-year-old girl who spent eight hours taking water from the pond. She lives with her family in South Sudan from 2008 to 2009. Her house is far from the nearest pond and she walks twice a day to support her parents and sister Akeer. Throughout the story, her older sister Akeer is sick and her village has a well so she does not have to go a long way and drink dangerous water. Nya was very satisfied with the construction of the school and the well. Then she introduced herself to Salva Dut

South Sudan Water is a project created by Salva Dut to drill the village of South Sudan. [Required citation]

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.