In Agweo, Uganda, villagers were used to walking a long way every day in search of water. It costs a lot of money to build a well in Africa. The 6-year-old, Ryan Hreljac, kept doing chores around his parents’ house, even after he learned it could take him years to earn enough money to build one. Then a friend of the family wrote an article in the local newspaper about Ryan’s wish to build a well in Africa to supply people with clean water. After Ryan’s well was built, a young orphan named Akana longed for a chance to thank Ryan in person for this gift of life-clean water.

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Related: Africa, All Ages, Canada, Nonfiction, Uganda

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• ISBN: 9781553379676
• Author: Sholveller, Herb
• Illustrator: Lobko, Ben
• Published: 2006
• Themes: Family, Orphans, Search, Villages
• Descriptors: Africa, All Ages, Canada, Nonfiction, Uganda