<P> Salva Dut is a young 11 - year - old boy separated from his family during a war in what is now South Sudan because of the Second Sudanese Civil War . He has to walk for weeks with only the hope that one day he will find his family again . Salva also struggles to find food and water to survive along with avoiding gunmen , lions and other threats . Salva leads 1,500 fellow lost boys to a refugee camp near the Gilo River . On his way many people die including his uncle and some of his friends . Seven years later , he arrives in America . He lives with a family in Rochester , New York . Many years later he finds his father who tells him that most of his family survived . Later he starts a volunteer group to build wells in South Sudan called Water for South Sudan . </P>
<P> Salva Dut is a young 11 - year - old boy separated from his family during a war in what is now South Sudan because of the Second Sudanese Civil War . He has to walk for weeks with only the hope that one day he will find his family again . Salva also struggles to find food and water to survive along with avoiding gunmen , lions and other threats . Salva leads 1,500 fellow lost boys to a refugee camp near the Gilo River . On his way many people die including his uncle and some of his friends . Seven years later , he arrives in America . He lives with a family in Rochester , New York . Many years later he finds his father who tells him that most of his family survived . Later he starts a volunteer group to build wells in South Sudan called Water for South Sudan . </P>
who dies in a long walk to water
who dies in a long walk to water
many people die including his uncle and some of his friends
many people die including his uncle and some of his friends