What can he do to help the Sudanese people?
After living in Rochester, New York, for several years, he receives a surprising email in 2006: his father is alive! It takes several months of planning, but Salva is able to visit the hospital in Sudan where his father is staying because ''years of drinking contaminated water had left Mawien Dut's entire digestive system riddled with guinea worms.'' Salva thinks about this a lot, especially after he is back in New York. While in this second camp, Salva gets the chance to move to New York and live with an American family in 1996. Under his leadership, ''more than twelve hundred boys arrived safely'' at the camp in Kenya. As a 17-year-old, Salva is able to take responsibility for other boys on this trip. Once again, Salva finds himself running, this time back across the desert to a different camp in Kenya. He lives here for six years until the camp is closed and the refugees are forced out. Defying all obstacles and taking it one day at a time, the way his Uncle Jewiir taught him, Salva makes it across the desert and the Nile River to the Itang refugee camp in Ethiopia. Salva then joins another group which is heading to the refugee camps in Ethiopia.
This group is overtaken by rebel soldiers, but they leave Salva behind while he sleeps since he is a child. Many others are in the same boat, and Salva joins a group of them. Salva has no choice but to run as far away from the village as he can if he wants to escape being killed. The students hear gunfire outside after two years, the war between rebel soldiers and the Sudanese government over religious practices has finally hit Salva's village. At that time, Salva is an 11-year-old boy doing what we expect many boys his age to be doing - sitting in school. Let's start with Salva, whose story begins in 1985 when he is living in the southern part of Sudan.
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