In January of 2005, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit AED sent a team of Malian and U.S. photographers to two remote villages in Mali. They taught sixth graders how to tell their stories of village life with cameras. The project became known as “Visual Griots.” An exhibit of the children’s photographs opened at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in the Fall of 2006.

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