Thursday, March 1, 2012

LINKING L'AFRICA

http://www.waterforsouthsudan.org/salvas-story/
Salva's Charity website, go and donate!
http://www.lindasuepark.com/
This is the author of the story!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion
Lions, a major player in the role of life in Africa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe
Another African animal, that is most delightful.
http://water.org/
Water is essential for human life, here's a website all about providing water.
http://freerice.com
This is a glorious educational game, that donates rice to needy folks worldwide with each correct answer.
http://www.southafrica.net/sat/content/en/us/us-home
Here you can sign up yourself and your family for a most exciting trip to south Africa!
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
This is a nifty tool that you can use to make sure you don't live near a dangerous drought zone, like Salva did in the story!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator
Salva encountered many-a alligator in his travels throughout the story, here you can learn all about the spiny little demons.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids/pyramids.html
Not only did Africa contain Salva at the time of his journey, it also contained the beautiful pyramids, here you can view numerous pictures and whatnot of the pyramids in all of their glory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War
This is a link to all things that are Sudanese Civil war, the very war that Salva escapes from in the novel.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5424.htm
The government of the United States loves nothing more than to educate us on African countries, as such, here is the U.S. background view of Sudan.
http://www.wydasudan.org/dinka-tribe/
Here is a short blurb about Salva's very own tribe, the Dinka People! They are mostly nomadic nowadays, take a gander her on this website, and maybe even donate some dinero to their well being.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuer_people
This is a link to the Nuer Tribe, the tribe that the African girl Nya belongs to in the story. They largely disliked Salva's tribe back in the day, and were constantly warring with them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdXwgoZvUZE
To top off the list of links, here is a short YouTube video, of roughly 5 minutes, that details a typical trip to build a well in a Sudanese village in modern day with Salva and his charity organization.

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