“The day is actually organized by a phone call from Dr Hared in the evening before the flying day,” explains Miles. “Especially with the COVID-19 situation and the difficulty in getting here, it is quite amazing how it has all been pulled together,” he adds.įirst on the agenda is the regular morning briefing with the team, FAO experts and Government officials at the airport. We reassembled them in Nairobi (Kenya), flew to Mogadishu (Somalia) and we are up here now in Garowe (Puntland State of Somalia), and we have been spraying for the last two weeks,” recalls Miles. Within that month, the aircrafts have been flown from the States. Together with the rest of the crew of Guardian Helicopters, a company hired by FAO to help in Somalia’s anti-locust campaign, Miles is going to be picked up at 6.00 at the hotel to make their way to the airport. This Englishman is one of the pilots conducting aerial spraying in the easternmost country of the Horn of Africa - the first time in 30 years that the security situation has allowed for this to happen in Somalia. Miles Woodgate is eating breakfast and getting ready for the long day ahead fighting Desert Locusts.
It is now a quarter past five and still pitch-black outside. The alarm went off a few minutes ago, before the morning call to prayer.
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