LWTW timeline; Salva and Naya
Salva
Naya
Southern Sudan 1985
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- salva runs from his village after its invaded by the rebels
- Naya lives half a days walk from water and has to make the trip twice a day
2, he joins other men from his tribe to walk to a refugee ca
- more men join them and he finds his uncle
- within the group salva befriends a boy who ends up getting eaten by a lion
- after walking for months and travelling across the Nile, they enter the desert where Salvas uncle is killed by rebels
- salva and the rest of his group arrive at the refugee camp in ethiopia
- 6 years later the camps are shut down and soldiers force all of the refugees to leave the camps, and Ethiopia
- Salva travels for a year and a half with a group of about 1,200 boys to a refugee camp in Kenya
- when salva is 22 he walks to a new refugee camp in hopes of better living conditions, but no such luck
- Salva is one of the 3,000 boys chosen to live in america, he is chosen to live in Rochester NY
- salva finds out his dad is still alive and he travels back to sudan to visit him. he also finds out that some of his other family is still alive
- Salva starts an organization that builds wells for people in Sudan who don't have access to clean and safe water
- Salva and his crew build a well for Nya's village
- Naya has to take her little sister Akeer to learn how to collect water
Southern Sudan 2008
- Naya and her family have to live in the dryer part of sudan until the rainy season comes so they can move back to their home
- Akeer gets sick from the water and they have to walk three days to a clinic
- men come to nayas village claiming there is water beneath the ground
- they finally get water to come out of the ground but are disappointed when they see its muddy
- Naya finds out they are building a well that will provide them clean water. she also finds out they'll be building a school she can attend.
- the story becomes full circle when we find out its salva building the well for nayas village
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