New Yorker City's Haitian Community Struggle to Help the People of Haiti During an Unstable Period
The U.S. government has started telling American citizens to leave Haiti after an American nurse and her child were kidnapped. Several thousands of people marched through Haiti's Capital Port-au-Prince last week, demanding protection from violence. Kenya recently offered to lead a multinational police force to restore order.
As the crisis has unfolded, the Haitian communities of New York City have been struggling to help the people of Haiti because of limited travel and instability.
Ricot Dupuy is the co-founder of Radio Soleil, a Haitian radio station in Brooklyn, and Maryse Cadet is the president of the Association for the Children of Regnier, Haiti. Cadet supports a school in Regnier, a locality in the western part of the country from Brooklyn. Both Dupuy and Cadet spoke with WNYC’s All Things Considered host Sean Carlson about their experience with trying to help the people of Haiti.
