Salva's route is shown from the plains of southern Sudan across the Nile River through the Akobo desert to the east into Ethiopia and then south to Kakuma in northern Kenya.' Read moreĪ map of Sudan, showing geographic features such as mountains, hills, swampland, plains, deserts, and rivers. Our plans are still rough but we would like to read these two books, and participate in the water challenge. I’m working with a 5th grade teacher to write a lesson plan using Long Walk to Water and the picture book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba as the basis of a 5th grade service project at my school this year. Clean water will change her life, freed from the need to seek water, the elders in her village plan to build a school. One of wells is in Nya’s village thus the adult Salva and 11 year old Nya meet. He ultimately starts a foundation that has provided 104 water wells for South Sudan. Visiting his father Salva is struck by the lack of clean water. As a teenager, Salva comes to America where he resumes his education and eventually learns that his father has survived. She spends hours each day walking through the bush to a watering hole. The Civil War is over but a fictional character Nya lives in an area of Sudan with no running water. Salva’s story is juxtaposed with the 2008 story of Nya. This motivational piece of historical fiction tells the story of 11 year old Salva, Dut, one of “Sudan’s lost boys”, as he walks to safety fleeing Civil War in 1985 and again in 1991 when refugees were forced back into Sudan.
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