Newcastle native on a mission in 'hellhole'

THE recession is a brutal reminder of the toll waste and mismanagement can take – and nowhere is this more acute than in the Third World.Galway city native Frank McManus has just returned from Sudan, one of a number of countries in which he has spent the last eight years working for GOAL. It is a place where getting value for your money could be the difference between life and death.Working in places like Darfur and South Sudan teaches you things you would never pick up in a "nine to five office environment," he says. "You do what you can, with what you have, where you are. You don't hang around waiting for solutions to arrive, nothing will ever be even attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome," he adds.Frank is from Newcastle in Galway city: he went to school in Colaiste Iognaid, and worked as a senior auditor with KPMG before joining GOAL; so what made him hang up the charcoal pinstripe suit and pack away the laptop?"I was simply...