Natasha teaching in Santa Cruz. Students include Samuel (in pink - taking his second grade - 9 - this year and moving out of gang life), Julia (single mother of 5 children), Francisco (his father is a labourer on a chicken farm), Vilma (far right - mother of two children) and Enrique (his mother makes a living by selling snacks to people on buses - he is also in second grade - 9 - even though he must care for his younger siblings much of the time). Makes it seem pretty worthwhile, doesn't it?