Salva
Avoiding rebels, lions, and other threats, Salva, from the Dinka tribe, and his group go to the Itang Refugee Camp he is then run out towards the Gilo River and ran into Kenya. He becomes the leader of 1,500 Lost Boys and takes them to another camp. He is taken to America and gets a new family. Eventually he becomes the founder of a non profit called Water For South Sudan (WFSS). Schools can fundraise for Salva to dig wells in South Sudan.
Nya
Nya [Ny-uh] is an 11-year-old girl who walks eight hours every day for seven months of the year to fetch water from the pond. She and her family live in South Sudan in 2008. Her family home is far from the nearest pond, where she walks twice a day to support her parents and younger sister, Akeer. She also has a little brother that her mom takes care of at home. Throughout the story, her sister, Akeer, gets sick and is told that the water was contaminated. Later, in 2009, a well is built in her village so she will not have to walk so far and drink unsafe water. A school is built along with the well and Nya is overjoyed by this. She then introduces herself to Salva Dut at the end of the book, because she was confused by the fact that Salva, a Dinka, would help her Nuer village as the Dinka and Nuer tribes have been in conflict for many years. [1] Nya's story is fictional, and Park interviewed travelers who saw water wells being drilled in villages like Nya's. She also examined their photographs and videos.
