Salva's Story

Salva was born in a village in the southwest Sudan and arrived at the Dinka tribe. At the age of 11, the civil war in Sudan reached his village and pulled Salva away from his family. He joined thousands of boys called "Lost Boy" on safe trekking trips in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. After living in the camp for ten years, Salva got the opportunity to move to the United States. So, he is accepted into the family of Rochester, New York State. A few years later, Salva learned that my father was still living in the southern part of Sudan, but it was suffering from waterborne parasites and diseases. This urged Salva to help his father and his country by providing clean water to people in need. This is the beginning of the water in South Sudan.

Salva's story is talked about in the best selling Linda Su Park 2010 award-winning novel A Long Walk To Water. Park combines the true story of Salva with the fictional Nya story. Every day Nya takes hours to get water for my family. Throughout the study, Salva himself writing, and finally, Interview to Salva himself, Parker and Salvador cooperated to tell his extraordinary story. She has never been to Sudan, but Park believes it can provide a bright spot for Salva 's story. "One of my biggest obstacles is to write places I have never done, which was always destructive to me.Transactions are still the same today, which is a difficult decision , I thought that if we insisted on the information that Salva gave me like an adhesive * I could break this principle. "

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.