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AGONY UNCLE

: My 18-year-old niece is planning to spend two months volunteering at a village school in Ghana. I feel instinctively the whole premise is wrong in so many ways (she doesn’t even have any teaching experience!), but I don’t want to pour cold water on her plans and new-found excitement about the wider world. Her parents also like the idea of her being under the supervision of

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