A girl from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit group in Haiti and her younger daughter have been reported as kidnapped because the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” within the nation and ordered nonemergency personnel to depart there amid rising safety issues.
Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter had been kidnapped on Thursday, the group mentioned in a press release Saturday.
El Roi, which runs a faculty and ministry in Port au Prince, mentioned the 2 had been taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the spouse of this system’s director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown mentioned within the assertion. “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.”
A State Department spokesperson mentioned in a press release Saturday it’s “aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti,” including, “We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners.”
In its advisory Thursday, the division mentioned that “kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.”
It mentioned kidnappings typically contain ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been bodily harmed.
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to debate Haiti’s worsening scenario.
WMUR-TV reported that Dorsainvil is from Middleton, New Hampshire, and went to Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to assist nursing schooling in Haiti.
“It doesn’t surprise me that Alex chose to get involved in this type of service work,” Regis College president Toni Hays advised the station. “She was amazing. She was passionate, she was compassionate.”
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