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Excerpt:

Within two months, Sinead Fyda traded a Madison Avenue office for a classroom with a dirt floor, no water, no electricity – and six desks for 80 kindergartners.

She had quit a stressful job at Ralph Lauren in New York to embark on a three-week volunteer teaching trip to Tanzania – a refreshing break, she hoped, from a seven-year career as a buyer in the demanding fashion industry.

Yet, in the rural village of Rau near Mount Kilimanjaro, sleeping under mosquito nets and bathing with cold water were proving to be more overwhelming as a lifestyle.

She would try to teach math by counting rocks and tracing numbers in the dirt, frustrated almost to tears as she flipped through a book of Swahili phrases.