A Long Walk to Water (Nya)

  • Nya

    Nya is 11 yrs old and lives in South Sudan.
  • 2008 South Sudan

    Nya's daily thing is a full day of walking from the pond and back that takes half of the day.
  • 2008 South Sudan

    Nya had to make a tough decision of leaving her sister to feel better on her own or take a dangerous hike to get help.
  • 2008 South Sudan

    The nurse told Nya and her family to that Akeer must drink good clean water.
  • 2008 South Sudan

    Nya and her village are doing what is told from the men and the village was in disbelieve because they would have done this ages ago.
  • 2008 South Sudan

    Nya steps on a thorn on her heel and had to take it out and it is very painful but persevered through the pain.
  • 2008 South Sudan

    Nya had to drink dirty water and could possibly get sick and die.
  • 2008 South Sudan

    Nya has to get water after she is done digging and then has to walk eight hours back to her village.
  • 2008 South Sudan

    Nya's family drinks filthy water because in Sudan there is no clean water.
  • 2008 South Sudan

    Two men came out of a jeep to talk to Dep and Nya asked what was going on.
  • 2008 South Sudan

    The strange men were arranging to get water closer to the village and possibly it is cleaner water.
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    2008 South Sudan

  • 2009 South Sudan

    Nya met the boss of the men who had mood swings with his employers and it kept leaking and patching it. Employers wanted to go home because of it but their boss made them continue.
  • 2009 South Sudan

  • 2009 South Sudan

    Nya and villagers are still working on cutting down the forest.
  • 2009 South Sudan

    All the adults found the spraying of water but it was heavy looking and muddy and Nya frowned from the sight of it.
  • 2009 South Sudan

    Nya and Dep thought that the men had to drill deeper to get the cleaner water because the water was brown and muddy.
  • 2009 South Sudan

    Nya's father and the villagers are possibly building a pond or well for clean water.
  • 2009 South Sudan

    Nya's father and the villagers are building a school so now the kids don't have to fetch water and now could have a good education.
  • 2009 South Sudan

    Nya had took sips at the water and is glad that she finally had clean water.