He is a part of the Dinka tribe.

He ran away from his village due to the war between south and north sudan.

He was at school and fled when he heard gunshots.

He lived in South Sudan, in the village of loun-ariik, which was at war with North Sudan.

He couldn't find his family for many years after he left.

he had to go to multiple refugee camps in multiple countries.

he was the creator of the Water For Sudan organization.

a lot of his friends and family died, which gave him the courage to survive the travels.

Her sister's name is Akeer.

She is part of the Nuer tribe.

she has to walk far to get water.

her family and village drinks water that isn't even clean.

her village had a drill dug into their land to get clean water.

she stepped on a large thorn, and used another thorn to get it out.

she met salva when he was drilling a well for her village.

she found out about the well by overhearing and questioning the people.

He is part of the Jur-Chol tribe.

He found honey by listening to a specific species of bird

he was traveling with salva to ethiopia.

he meets salva after salva is slowing down, behind the group.

He is from the Dinka tribe, but a different village than Salva.

salva meets him by stepping on his hand.

he becomes salva's best friend.

he gets supposedly killed by a lion.

he was sleeping in a 'bed' next to salva's, but was gone (killed by lion) when salva woke up.

She is the younger sister of Nya.

She gave salva peanuts.

she was a dinka woman.

she lived in some sort of house with a small pond.

salva finds her while looking for his group.

she offers salva water until the small pond dries up and she has to leave.

he is salva's actual uncle, unlike aunty.

he fought in the war.

he still had his gun when salva found him.

he was killed by an ethiopian man when going to the refugee camp.

he broke the news of marial's death to salva.