Well - the adventure is about to start. It's been a just a few short months since I saw a posting on the Vodafone UK intranet site looking for volunteers to work with the UN World Food Programme - and now here I am sitting in Madrid airport waiting for the final leg of my journey to Dakar, Senegal. For the last 3 days I've been in Rome at WFP HQ - the UN is TLA (three letter accronym) mad, so please forgive me if I drop some in without explanation. These initial 3 days were a briefing session for the 4 volunteers, myself, Salma, Marco and Ayten. It was great to meet everyone and to get to see more abot what WFP is about. The highlight of the briefings for me was to go to the situation room, to see where WFP co-ordinates it's response to crisis situations and in partcicular to see a video and pictures of some of the fantastic work in Darfur- very moving.
My flight departure has just been announced - so here we go!
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