1.  CEO visited the children in Bamako in July 2011.  They have completed the academic year, and are all passing to their next grade level.  This summer they are keeping busy taking summer classes to maintain a head start for the next academic year.  Further in addition to their basketball, and taekwondo classes, they are taking classes at the Institut National des Arts of Bamako.  There, they are learning dramatic arts, drawing, cinema, and other arts classes.