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    My Scholarship entry - The Danube Delta and Its People

    Quasi-illiterate and in very poor health, Agripina has lived in the Delta her entire life, drinking water from the river because she’s never had running water indoors. With no power for a refrigerator in her house, she must dry salted fish to preserve it for the winter, when her leaky roof will be a poor defence against temperatures well below zero – to say nothing of blistering winds. Should she be unable to afford enough salt in the summer, Agripina risks getting food poisoning at a time when most of the Delta will be frozen over and the ambulance could take even longer than the usual 5 hours to get to her.

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    Quasi-illiterate and in very poor health, Agripina has lived in the Delta her entire life, drinking water from the river because she’s never had running water indoors. With no power for a refrigerator in her house, she must dry salted fish to preserve it for the winter, when her leaky roof will be a poor defence against temperatures well below zero – to say nothing of blistering winds. Should she be unable to afford enough salt in the summer, Agripina risks getting food poisoning at a time when most of the Delta will be frozen over and the ambulance could take even longer than the usual 5 hours to get to her.


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