This photo was taken during the summer of 1991, shortly before I finished my work in Mali as a teacher trainer at the Ecole Normale Superieure, or l'ENSUP, in Bamako, Mali. These were the greatest students...they had survived a coup d'etat, in...
I am in Chinguetti with teacher colleagues after a camel caravan from Atar to Chinguetti. We were exploring the beautiful ruins of old buildings around Chinguetti, which you see here in the background. I am the third from the left in this photo.
Special Supplement to the Peace Corps Times (August, 1991)-- Leadership Perspective: a reflection by Peace Corps directors of thirty years of volunteer service worldwide.