abc news jessica gorman and matt seyler contributed to this report the state department advises americans not to travel to haiti due to widespread kidnapping as well as crime civil unrest and poor health care infrastructure we are in regular contact with haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our us government interagency partners the spokesperson said 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 she works as a school and community nurse for the organization and is married to its director with whom she shares the child according to el roi haiti em show more ralph tedy erolreuters the us department of state and our embassies and consulates abroad have no higher priority than the safety and security of us citizens overseas the spokesperson added no further information is being shared by the state department at this time a man carries his belongings after officers of the haitian national police fired tear gas to clear a camp of people escaping the threat of armed gangs in front of the us a new hampshire woman and her child have been kidnapped in haiti according to a faithbased humanitarian organization where the mother works as a nurse alix dorsainvil and her child were kidnapped thursday morning near portauprince according to the organization el roi haiti alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers haiti her home and the haitian people her friends and family brown said in a statement on saturday more american couple held for ransom in haiti released nearly a month later a us state department spokesperson confirmed to abc news on saturday that the agency is aware of reports of the kidnapping of two us citizens in haiti us citizens in haiti should depart haiti as soon as possible by commercial or other privately available transportation options in light of the current security situation and infrastructure challenges a state department advisory said dorsainvil is originally from new hampshire and has been living and working in haiti for some time now el roi haiti confirmed to abc news they were abducted from el roi haitis campus while serving in our community ministry el roi haiti president and cofounder jason brown said in a statement more haiti fights for its life in the streets reporters notebook the reported kidnapping comes as the state department ordered the evacuation on thursday of family members of us government employees and nonemergency us government employees in haiti