A teacher receiving an $850 a month stipend while teaching in Africa is considered a volunteer and not an employee entitled to workers’ compensation benefits from her Arizona-based nonprofit agency, a Court of Appeals in Arizona has ruled. The woman worked under the direction of International Educators for Africa as a teacher in Ivory Coast. While traveling to meet with ophthalmologists from the United States who would help supply eye exams and eye glasses for her students, she was seriously injured in a bus accident. She applied for workers’ comp payments in Arizona. When she had joined the program, she signed a “participation agreement” acknowledging that she was a volunteer and not an...