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. Continue reading »