Girls Practice: Guayaquil, Ecuador

This photo was taken at a school in Guayaquil, Ecuador during a physical education class. The moment was captured as the teachers told each girl to pick up a ball and return to the court. The two teachers who were leading the physical education class had each been doing so for nearly twenty years. After the class, one of the teachers told me what she thought the class meant to them and to the girls: "We're here to lead them. To let them know that this is for them. To give them a place to learn and to feel like they can do it. We're their leaders, when they don't have leaders."