“Who are you?” Mawien Dut asked the young man. “I am Salva,” he replied. His father was shocked at first. “Then,” his son said, “he got up and he hold me. His eyes were ...

The man frowned. “But who are you?” “Yes,” Salva said. “It’s me, Father.” He moved to the side of the bed. Mawien Dut reached out and touched the arm of this tall stranger beside him.

“Who are you?” Mawien Dut asked the young man. “I am Salva,” he replied. His father was shocked at first. “Then,” his son said, “he got up and he hold me. His eyes were ...

Salva Dut founded a nonprofit, Water for South Sudan, in 2003 to provide clean, safe water and improve hygiene and sanitation in South Sudan. His story became the inspiration for a popular book ...

In 2003, Salva Dut, a refugee from Sudan living in Rochester, had an idea. He would raise money; he would go back to his village in the east African country; he would dig a well; he would bring water.

Salva Dut was one of them. As an 11-year-old, he fled to Ethiopia. Then, as a teenager, he led some 1,500 Lost Boys hundreds of miles through the South Sudan desert to a refugee camp in Kenya.

A slide from the presentation by Salva Dut, founder of international nonprofit Water for South Sudan shows the concrete work around the wells honoring the students and faculty of Fallston Middle ...

Students at Rupert Nock Middle School will have a chance to meet their hero, Salva Dut, when he visits the school on Wednesday, Nov. 16. Salva Dut’s journey began in Sudan and for the past three ...

Salva is Salva Dut, who escaped the civil war in South Sudan by walking hundreds of miles to a refugee camp in Kenya when he was only 11 years old. Dut eventually settled in America, but his heart ...

As a young boy in the 80s, Salva Dut walked thousands of kilometres fleeing civil war in Sudan. His will to survive and keep going has taken him a long way in life. Show more Salva Dut is one of ...

Miles Herndon, a fifth-grader at Seattle’s Daniel Bagley Elementary, lay awake Tuesday night, too excited to sleep knowing that Salva Dut, a Sudanese humanitarian, was coming to Bagley the next ...

After learning his father is still alive, Salva Dut travels back to Sudan to find him. He's sick with a waterborne disease. So Salva decides to bring clean water to his village. Show more At the ...