We brought 500 eclipse viewers with us to hand out to people so they wouldn't damage their eyes looking at the partial phases of the eclipse. We picked them up in Paris since the ones there were printed with instructions in French. We handed a few out many of the places we went, since even though Mali wasn't in the path of totality, the eclipse would still be very significant. This was the first of several "feeding frenzies" where we were mobbed by people wanting something being handed out, without necessarily understanding what it was or when to use it. We resolved to give them only to teachers from then on.