Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse serving with a Christian organization in Port-au-Prince, was reportedly kidnapped with her child July 27.
El Roi Haiti reported the kidnapping on its website, stating Dorsainvil and her child were taken from its Port-au-Prince campus while serving in community ministry. Dorsainvil’s husband, Sandro, is the organization’s director of operations in Haiti and founder of its school, El Roi Academy.
Serving Haiti ‘in the name of Jesus’
Alix Dorsainvil is from New Hampshire, she said in a video on El Roi’s website.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi said in the statement about her kidnapping. “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.”
El Roi Haiti was founded to provide Christ-centered education and community transformation in Haiti. Sandro Dorsainvil experienced these needs first-hand throughout his childhood in the country.
Do-not-travel advisory
On July 27, the U.S. Department of State ordered non-emergency U.S. government employees and family members of government employees to leave Haiti and said U.S. citizens currently in the country should leave as soon as possible “in light of the current security situation and infrastructure challenges.”
The State Department’s do-not-travel advisory said kidnapping is widespread in Haiti and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.
“We continue to trust in Jesus Christ who is faithful, even in these very difficult circumstances,” El Roi said on its website.
“We are asking people to pray and cry out to Him,” the group said, “that He would hold our friends safely in His hands and place a hedge of protection around them as He makes their path straight back to us and to freedom.”
