LWTW timeline; Salva and Naya

Salva

Naya

Southern Sudan 1985

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  1. salva runs from his village after its invaded by the rebels
  1. 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

  1. more men join them and he finds his uncle
  1. within the group salva befriends a boy who ends up getting eaten by a lion
  1. after walking for months and travelling across the Nile, they enter the desert where Salvas uncle is killed by rebels
  1. salva and the rest of his group arrive at the refugee camp in ethiopia
  1. 6 years later the camps are shut down and soldiers force all of the refugees to leave the camps, and Ethiopia
  1. Salva travels for a year and a half with a group of about 1,200 boys to a refugee camp in Kenya
  1. when salva is 22 he walks to a new refugee camp in hopes of better living conditions, but no such luck
  1. Salva is one of the 3,000 boys chosen to live in america, he is chosen to live in Rochester NY
  1. 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
  1. Salva starts an organization that builds wells for people in Sudan who don't have access to clean and safe water
  1. Salva and his crew build a well for Nya's village
  1. Naya has to take her little sister Akeer to learn how to collect water

Southern Sudan 2008

  1. 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
  1. Akeer gets sick from the water and they have to walk three days to a clinic
  1. men come to nayas village claiming there is water beneath the ground
  1. they finally get water to come out of the ground but are disappointed when they see its muddy
  1. 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.
  1. the story becomes full circle when we find out its salva building the well for nayas village

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