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 muddy
and found a friend… 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.” (89) sanitary water in my
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.