The meetings are attended by the whole committee of five people. Some sites will serve 20-30 communities, so the meetings are often quite large. Each morning I set out on our motorbikes with Ayamba, the co-ordinator, and Kilasa, the distribution supervisor, to attend the meetings. We carry with us a bottle of water and a handful of packets of bland, sweet cookies for lunch on the road between meetings. The sites are anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours by motorcycle down the rotten, sandy dirt roads.
Any bridges are simply tree trunks laid across the gap in the road.
Very often we have to get off the motorbikes to walk them across. The main form of transport for farm produce is by bicycle. The bicyclists are amazing. Usually, when we arrive at a site the committees are already there, grouped in small clusters under shady mango trees. Although this is just another meeting to us, it is a big deal to these guys.