Salva, Nya, and villagers discuss the challenges faced in Sudan, including being forced from villages due to dangerous conditions, walking long distances to collect muddy and unsafe water, and illness striking family members. However, good things can turn tragic quickly, as a friend who helped Salva was killed by a lion. Salva later founded a water project after moving to America, giving hope for a different future for Sudanese people.
Original Description:
poem for two voices-salva and nya from the book "a long walk to water."
Salva, Nya, and villagers discuss the challenges faced in Sudan, including being forced from villages due to dangerous conditions, walking long distances to collect muddy and unsafe water, and illness striking family members. However, good things can turn tragic quickly, as a friend who helped Salva was killed by a lion. Salva later founded a water project after moving to America, giving hope for a different future for Sudanese people.
Salva, Nya, and villagers discuss the challenges faced in Sudan, including being forced from villages due to dangerous conditions, walking long distances to collect muddy and unsafe water, and illness striking family members. However, good things can turn tragic quickly, as a friend who helped Salva was killed by a lion. Salva later founded a water project after moving to America, giving hope for a different future for Sudanese people.
Salva says this alone Both say this Nya says this alone
Life presents challenges…. ….for us Sudanese people.
I had to run away from my “The nearest water was
family, only to be the pond….half a abandoned by the other morning’s walk away.” villagers. (51) Dangerous conditions force us from our villages. I walked with some Jur- I give the water to my Chol men I didn’t know family, despite how and found a friend… muddy it is……. Only for him to become Only for my little sister, lion’s prey in the night. Akeer, to be struck with illness. Good things can become tragedies in a matter of seconds. “Boys like [me] had to flee the fighting.” (LWW Author’s Note) All that I desire….
is “a future that might be
different.” (Water for Sudan) I went to live “in They started drilling for Rochester, New York.” sanitary water in my (89) village. They also began to build a school for all the children. I began a water project for Sudan once I was in America. Hope and perseverance brought us to where we are now.