A Milverton student is passing up the chance to study at Oxford to care for AIDS orphans in Africa.

Big hearted Emma Norris, 19, will spend two years living in some of the poorest and most deprived parts of Uganda.

The vicar's daughter is hoping to eventually open her own home for vulnerable children and their families affected by the country's HIV epidemic and lengthy civil war.

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