This photo was taken on March 6, 2013, in the first-grade classroom in a small village in Burkina Faso. This classroom consists of straw walls and a straw roof, and, unfortunately, it is the only school in the village: students in second grade must walk or bike over 5km to the nearest school in a neighboring village. The photo shows students coloring with crayons as their teacher, Zephirin Gouabe, asks questions about what they are drawing and why. Gouabe had read a story to his class and then instructed the students to draw a picture showing what they heard in the story. This "literacy through the arts" activity was a teaching technique presented in a workshop for elementary teachers, led by Peace Corps Volunteer Elizabeth Hauth. The workshop encouraged teachers to incorporate new ideas and strategies into their lessons, in order to improve student literacy and reading comprehension, even in the youngest of students.