Students at  in Haiti are receiving the best education of their lives.

DePaul University ethics professor Laura Pincus Hartman helped build the school last year. She has been working in Haiti since even before the earthquake devastated the region and has used her experience as an educator to help the community there.

L’Ecole de Choix targeted 183 children ages 4-10 who had no education and no access to a healthy meal. One year later, those children who could not read or write are speaking and writing in French, Creole and English.

“The only way to help a country and a nation progress is to educate the young, ” Hartman said.