This photo on the El Roi Haiti ministries website appears to show Sandro and Alix Dorsainvil. Alix, who is from New Hampshire, was kidnapped on Thursday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, along with the couple’s child.
This photo on the El Roi Haiti ministries website appears to show Sandro and Alix Dorsainvil. Alix, who is from New Hampshire, was kidnapped on Thursday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, along with the couple’s child.
A New Hampshire woman who was held captive in Haiti for 13 days with her daughter is speaking directly to her captors nearly two weeks after she was freed.
Speaking in French, Alix Dorsainvil shared a message for both “the Haitian population and the gangsters” in YouTube video dated Thursday, Aug. 17
While Dorsavil thanked the Haitian community for their prayers and support during her time in captivity, her message was predominately directed toward the Haitian gangsters who held her captive.
“I want you guys to know that everything I said during my time in captivity was sincere,” Dorsainvil said. “They were not the manipulative words of someone desperate to escape, but simply the truth.”
Dorsainvil and her daughter were kidnapped on July 27 while serving in El Roi Haiti Outreach International’s community ministry near Port-au-Prince, the nonprofit’s website states. She has been a nurse for the school, according to a video on the website. But she also provides services for the community.
On Aug. 9, the nonprofit confirmed Dorsainvil and her daughter had been freed and that they were “healthy and unharmed.”
Dorsainvil first visited Haiti soon after the 2010 earthquake. She was still in college but fell in love with the people, according to the nonprofit’s website. She continued taking trips back to Haiti during her breaks from school and during the summers.
In 2020, Dorsainvil became a staff member at El Roi Haiti as a school nurse. About a year later, she married the ministry director, Sandro Dorsainvil, who grew up in the Citè Soleil area. The community in Port-au-Prince is “known for its poverty and violence,” according to the website.
The violence has stirred anger among Haitians, who say they simply want to live in peace.
“I want you to know that I hold no grudges against you in my heart,” the nurse continued in the video. “That doesn’t mean I don’t agree with what you are doing. Especially against your own Haitian brothers and sisters.”
Dorsainvil went on to advise the gangsters that what they are chasing will never truly satisfy them.
“I understand that all of you are in search for happiness, satisfaction, money, power and status to fill the void in your hearts,” she said. “They will never fill the void in your hearts. The only way for this hole to be filled is with the love of Jesus Christ.”
