Marc Antoine Withney is the principal and main teacher at the Salen Mixed Instruction Center, an elementary school in one poorest neighborhoods of Port-of-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Like the small houses surrounding it, the school was severely affected by the January 2010 earthquake. But two years after the disaster, the 35-year-old Haitian was able–through his own efforts and with international help–to partially reconstruct his little school, restoring hope and opportunities to learn to more than 400 children living nearby.
The epidemiological tendency of cholera has followed the anticipated course beginning with localized outbreaks in highly populated urban areas and then spreading to rural zones.
Health Cluster Bulletin #28 – Cholera and Post-Earthquake Response in Haiti 
In Haiti, the national number of cases and hospitalizations has decreased in the past three weeks, following the increase which occurred between EW 20 and 25. At the local level two departments, Nord and Nord Ouest, recorded an increase in the number of new cholera cases and new hospitalizations since EW 22. Meanwhile, Port-au-Prince and the Centre, Grand Anse and Nippes departments which had recorded an increase in cases between EW 22 and 23, have recorded a decline for the past three weeks.
Epidemiological Alert: Update on the Cholera situation in Haiti and the Dominican Republic (26 July 2011)
