Salva's life is changed forever in 1985 when his village in Sudan is attacked and he and other children are told to run away as fast as they can. He loses his family and all that he knows. He is alone even when he is with others on the long march to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. He spends 6 years in the camp. Somehow Salva survives and eventually he ends up in the United States in New York where he longs to go back Sudan and help his country and find his family.
We enter Nya's life in 2008 and it revolves around water. Everyday she walks all day long to a pond to fill the family's water jugs. No school. No playing with friends. All day every day she walks to and from the pond. During the dry season her family moves to a dry lake bed and digs in the mud to find water.
Read the amazing true story of how Salva's and Nya's lives eventually intersect in a wonderful way.
We enter Nya's life in 2008 and it revolves around water. Everyday she walks all day long to a pond to fill the family's water jugs. No school. No playing with friends. All day every day she walks to and from the pond. During the dry season her family moves to a dry lake bed and digs in the mud to find water.
Read the amazing true story of how Salva's and Nya's lives eventually intersect in a wonderful way.
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