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Ask Slashdot: Geeky Volunteer Work?
An anonymous reader writes "I plan to be in-between jobs for 1-2 months later this year and use part of this time to do some volunteer work in Africa. My naive question: what to do and where to go? Is it possible to make good use of the skill-set of a typical geek? Any interesting projects worth supporting on-site?"
Well unfortunately volunteering at schools comes with political baggage that you have to carry, If you are too educated teachers don't like you and see you as a threat for teaching children better then they can, especially if you are Non-Union. Because teacher pay is too low, many of them compensate it with a personality that states that they are better people then the rest of the population. And the fact that they work all day with people who look up to them (In some way or another) they get caught up in that delusion.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
*Spelling Nazi alert*
You meant paring, not pairing.
which is totally what she said