“Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus,” the statement from El Roi Haiti said.ĭorsainvil is a “very special young woman,” the president of her alma mater, Regis College, said. “Pray that God would keep her safe, be with her through this trial, and deliver her from her captors.”Įl Roi Haiti described the nurse as a “deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family.”
“Please pray for Alix Dorsainvil,” the school said. citizens to make plans to depart Haiti as soon as possible via commercial means,” the earlier advisory stated.Ī ‘deeply compassionate and loving person’ĭorsainvil is a New Hampshire native, the private school she attended, Cornerstone Christian Academy in Wakefield, said in an online statement. “Given the recent armed clashes between gangs and the police and the high threat of violent crime and kidnapping throughout Port-au-Prince, the Department of State urges U.S.
It added the US government’s capacity to provide emergency services to US citizens in Haiti is severely constrained. The department warned of a high threat of violent crime and kidnapping in Port-au-Prince. citizens overseas,” the spokesperson said. Department of State and our embassies and consulates abroad have no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. US authorities are aware of the abductions and are working with Haitian authorities and US government interagency partners, according to a statement given to CNN by a State Department spokesperson. FBIįBI: American who was kidnapped in Mexico headed back home after 8 months The FBI released this photo of Monica de Leon Barba after she was kidnapped in November 2022. In 2021, 17 missionaries from the United States and Canada were seized by a local gang while traveling on the road north of the capital and held for more than a month.Īuthorities registered 1,014 kidnappings in Haiti from January to June this year – 256 women, 13 girls and 24 boys, according to a United Nations report on Haiti.ĭorsainvil, a nurse from New Hampshire, moved to Haiti after her husband invited her to the Haitian school to provide nursing care for the children, Dorsainvil explained in an undated video on the organization’s website.
While the bulk of such cases are local, targeting the rich and poor alike, foreigners have been taken in several high-profile kidnappings. Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas have been gripped by a yearslong kidnapping-for-profit epidemic, with hundreds of Haitians targeted by gangs seeking ransom payments each year. The order followed a travel advisory from the US Embassy in Haiti advising US nationals to leave the country immediately due to recent armed clashes between criminal groups and police in Port-au-Prince. The same day, the US State Department ordered the departure of nonemergency government personnel from Haiti as the security situation in the country deteriorates. El Roi HaitiĪmerican nurse and her child kidnapped from their community ministry in Haiti An American nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, according to El Roi Haiti, the Christian humanitarian aid organization she works for.Alix Dorsainvil, wife of El Roi Haiti Director Sandro Dorsainvil, and their child were reportedly abducted Thursday morning, according to a statement on El Roi Haitiís website.
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