Contrasts

Every morning I wake up and put on my suit. Then I walk through the bohemian graffiti laden surroundings of San Lorenzo, catch a crowded metro, get off at EUR Magliana and enter a comfortable air-conditioned shuttle bus. I end up in a super clean business area designed to be futuristic in a 1980 perspective. I am at the head quarter of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian agency and my place of work. Each year, WFP feeds 100 000 000 people. It is a whole lot of people.


I am in the logistics department, an essential part of an organization continuously feeding millions of people. More specific I am in OMLT, a division focusing on land transports. Within OMLT, I belong to the Field Support Unit, which is a supporting function to the country offices. My work is to assist in the development of a new Fleet Management System, a web based software to be installed in all country offices. So far I have helped design a questionnaire that has been sent to each country office in order to increase knowledge about current practices. Today I began my next task, to map spare parts cross-reference databases in use in the commercial sector. In short: the first week I worked in Excel, the second week I am e-mailing.

First post ever

This is the blog telling the story of my time in Rome. Another day I'll write more about what I'm here to do and my experience so far. Today I present some photos of San Lorenzo, my neighborhood for the coming six months.

Via dei Campini is the street of my apartment.

My inner courtyard.