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 which there was much violence in the capital city of Bamako, and were brave enough to get back to finishing up their school year, even with all the turmoil, that particular year. I had a wonderful experience teaching at the ENSUP, and was really inspired by the students I taught there.