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34 - years old Dianne Grey was a ____________________ doctor in the south of England , but for the last eight months she has been living in Angola , working for an ____________________ called Doctors Without ____________________ that provides ____________________ health ____________________ in ____________________ African countries .

Dianne was a ____________________ in Horsham , Surrey . She had a good career ahead of her and a ____________________ life , but she began to find her job rather boring . She says , " I was ____________________ patients with ____________________ medical problems - ____________________ , sore throats and so on - and I felt a need to do something more ____________________ . "

The organisation she works for has been sending medical ____________________ and ____________________ to Angola since 1986 . Various armies have been fighting each other in the area for ____________________ , and ____________________ of health ____________________ have grown worse and worse . ____________________ the cities there aren't ____________________ hospitals , ____________________ , doctors or nurses , and many ____________________ have become a ____________________ problem .
At first Dianne was shocked , but she has been working hard to ____________________ conditions there . During her time in Angola , she has treated thousands of ____________________ and has been ____________________ local people as health ____________________ workers .
" Working there has been very ____________________ experience , " she says . " I have never felt so useful before . It's so great to know that we have been helping people who really need it " . She will be leaving Angola next month , but she has already decided to return to Africa as soon as possible .