I and Helene are leaving from Banjul to are going to Bansang the our destination of the mission: for a while the road is paved, then it becames a dirt clay-colored road. There is a special landscape, with palm-trees and a different kind of plants. Somewhere vegetation doesn't exist. We can see small villages made of land and straw.

It's a beautiful experience that I'm living in Gambia. I will be able to remember it with pleasure and melancholy.

I'm sure of that when I will come back in Italy I will not feel well because I will miss the children's smile and people's simplicity. I have known a lot of children, they live in their houses in the same place where I live with Helene.

As TNT volunteers in Gambia, part of our work is to monitor schools benefiting of FFE supplies, to see if the food is used according to the WFP rules. When we are on monitoring days, we visit several schools a day, checking the stores, the records, and interviewing separately the headmasters, the children, the cooks.

My name is Hélène, I come from France and I have just started a 3-months assignment in Gambia for the School Feeding Programme, with my Italian colleague Cinzia.

Last week we had our first meeting with the Gambian Communities of the two villages where school kitchens will be built, Kerr Layen and Chargel. Let me tell you how it was in Chargel.

Hello, my name's Cinzia, I'm 40 and I come from Italy. I live in Turin.

I have worked in TNT Global Express for 15 years. My job is "Supervisor Teleinspection Clerk".

What do I do exactly?