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From the Ted Talk by Ludwick Marishane: A bath without water

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So I grew up in Limpopo, on the border of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, a little town called meemotta. Water and eiicttlcery supply are as uerbldcipnate as the weather, and gnriwog up in these tough situations, at the age of 17, I was relaxing with a couple of friends of mine in winter, and we were sunbathing. The Limpopo sun gets really hot in winter. So as we were sunbathing, my best friend next to me says, "Man, why doesn't somebody invent something that you can just put on your skin and then you don't have to bthae?" And I sat, and I was like, "Man, I would buy that, eh?"

So I went home, and I did a little reacesrh, and I found some very shocking statistics. Over 2.5 billion ppleoe in the world today do not have proper access to water and soaianttin. Four hundred and fifty million of them are in Africa, and five million of them are in South Africa. Various diseases thrive in this environment, the most drastic of which is cleald trachoma. Trachoma is an infection of the eye due to dirt getting into your eye. Multiple infections of trachoma can leave you permanently bilnd. The disease leaves eight million people parnnletemy blind each and every year. The shocking part about it is that to avoid being infected with trachoma, all you have to do is wash your face: no medicine, no plils, no injections.

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So I grew up in Limpopo, on the border of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, a little town called ________. Water and ___________ supply are as _____________ as the weather, and _______ up in these tough situations, at the age of 17, I was relaxing with a couple of friends of mine in winter, and we were sunbathing. The Limpopo sun gets really hot in winter. So as we were sunbathing, my best friend next to me says, "Man, why doesn't somebody invent something that you can just put on your skin and then you don't have to _____?" And I sat, and I was like, "Man, I would buy that, eh?"

So I went home, and I did a little ________, and I found some very shocking statistics. Over 2.5 billion ______ in the world today do not have proper access to water and __________. Four hundred and fifty million of them are in Africa, and five million of them are in South Africa. Various diseases thrive in this environment, the most drastic of which is ______ trachoma. Trachoma is an infection of the eye due to dirt getting into your eye. Multiple infections of trachoma can leave you permanently _____. The disease leaves eight million people ___________ blind each and every year. The shocking part about it is that to avoid being infected with trachoma, all you have to do is wash your face: no medicine, no _____, no injections.

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  2. people
  3. pills
  4. bathe
  5. blind
  6. growing
  7. permanently
  8. sanitation
  9. electricity
  10. motetema
  11. research
  12. unpredictable

Original Text


So I grew up in Limpopo, on the border of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, a little town called Motetema. Water and electricity supply are as unpredictable as the weather, and growing up in these tough situations, at the age of 17, I was relaxing with a couple of friends of mine in winter, and we were sunbathing. The Limpopo sun gets really hot in winter. So as we were sunbathing, my best friend next to me says, "Man, why doesn't somebody invent something that you can just put on your skin and then you don't have to bathe?" And I sat, and I was like, "Man, I would buy that, eh?"

So I went home, and I did a little research, and I found some very shocking statistics. Over 2.5 billion people in the world today do not have proper access to water and sanitation. Four hundred and fifty million of them are in Africa, and five million of them are in South Africa. Various diseases thrive in this environment, the most drastic of which is called trachoma. Trachoma is an infection of the eye due to dirt getting into your eye. Multiple infections of trachoma can leave you permanently blind. The disease leaves eight million people permanently blind each and every year. The shocking part about it is that to avoid being infected with trachoma, all you have to do is wash your face: no medicine, no pills, no injections.

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