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![]() ![]() Effective leadership skills require strength, humility, empathy and understanding. ![]() Salva proves himself to be a natural leader.Salva is reunited with his parents many, many years later.This family offers Salva complete support and a sense of belonging. An American family adopts Salva when he is a young man.Although he believes them dead, Salva’s family help him to get through his daily struggles.Salva is reunited with his uncle as his group walks from Sudan to Ethiopia.He befriends Marial, a young boy from the same tribe (the Dinka tribe).Salva is devastated by the loss of his family.Salva Dut established the Water for Sudan organisation (which has instigated the drilling of over forty borewater facilities in Sudan, providing safe drinking water for tens of thousands of Sudanese.In Sudan, conflict over resources, including the precious commodity of water, has resulted in tribal wars as well as contributing in part to larger-scale conflicts.The lack of it leads to illness, despair, famine and conflict the ready availability of water in other parts of the world offers hope and opportunity. Water is the over-arching theme of this book.Some of the major themes of A Long Walk to Water include: ![]()
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