Armed with a copy of the Children Act, the guidelines for sessional daycare and fond memories of cosy inter-agency team meetings, I suddenly decided to transport myself from Rotherham to The Gambia, in West Africa, with the intention of helping in the development of childcare services.
The past seven years haven't been easy. I was confident that I'd accumulated a wide range of personal and professional skills in the UK childcare sector. What I didn't know was what it is like to live and work in a country which is among the poorest in the world, a country which has a punishing climate alternating between periods of hot sunshine for most of the year and a humid wet season for the rest.
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