(4 Aug 2025)
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Kenscoff, Haiti – 04 August 2025
1. Police car passing in front of the Saint-Hélène orphanage
2. Car entering orphanage
3. Various of people in front of orphanage
4. Farmer Sala Désire carrying his belongings
5. Désire talking
6. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Sala Désire, farmer:
“There is almost no one left in the neighborhood. We can’t work here with worried hearts at all times, you see armed gangs, people coming towards you, telling you to run or stop.”
7. Armed police controlling road access
8. Neighbors gathering their belongings
9. Various of farmer Joceline Souffrant packing her belongings
10. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Joceline Souffrant, farmer:
“We are running when we should be caring for our plantation. We can’t do anything during this season. We have to plant beans, but we can’t because of the situation. Everyone is running; we can’t stay in the area because of the shooting. We can’t relax.”
11. Various of Souffrant and friend packing their belongings to leave
12. Various of armed police controlling road access
13. Farmers working on land
14. Various of agricultural worker carrying flowers
STORYLINE:
Eight people, including an Irish missionary and a 3-year-old child, remain missing after gunmen stormed an orphanage in Haiti.
Sunday’s attack was the latest in an area controlled by a powerful collection of armed gangs.
Authorities scrambled to relocate dozens of children and staff from the Saint-Hélène orphanage run by an international charity with offices in Mexico and France.
Among those kidnapped was Gena Heraty, an Irish missionary who has worked in Haiti since 1993 and oversaw the orphanage’s special needs program for children and adults. She was assaulted in 2013 when suspects broke into the orphanage and killed her colleague, according to Irish media.
Sunday’s kidnapping took place in Kenscoff, a once peaceful and agricultural community, in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. The doors to the orphanage remained closed on Monday as Haiti’s Institute of Social Welfare and Research worked with UNICEF to identify sites where children and employees could be relocated.
Other residents, agricultural workers who should be planting crops, are also preparing to leave, adding to the more than a million people internally displaced in Haiti, according to the International Organization for Migration.
“This season we had to plant beans, but we can’t because of the situation, everyone is running, we can’t stay in the area because of the shooting,” said farmer Joceline Souffrant.
No one has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings in an area controlled by a gang federation known as “Viv Ansanm.” The U.S. this year designated it as a foreign terrorist organization.
AP Video shot by Pierre Luxama
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