Day: January 12, 2018
Trip to the edge — A deskbound Geneva ‘fonctionnaire’ tastes life in the field
By David Winch, UN Special, May 2009 The arrival was a shock. The airport, a shambles. After a day and a night on flights from Geneva to Paris to Togo and beyond, here we were in Central Africa. Years later, the memories of this, my first field mission, remain vivid. Arriving from the North, the…