“I dropped everything and have been glued to my TV ever since,” Claude Constant says of the moment she found out about the earthquake in Haiti. Constant, a single mother, kindergarten teacher at Roosevelt Elementary School in Salinas and native of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, moved to the United States in 1980. (She later returned to adopt her now 13-year-old daughter, Symphonie.) Though her mother …

“I dropped everything and have been glued to my TV ever since,” Claude Constant says of the moment she found out about the earthquake in Haiti. Constant, a single mother, kindergarten teacher at Roosevelt Elementary School in Salinas and native of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, moved to the United States in 1980. (She later returned to adopt her now 13-year-old daughter, Symphonie.) Though her mother …