ORLANDO, Fla. — The Federal Aviation Administration has stopped U.S. airlines from flying into Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for the next 30 days after three airplanes were recently shot at.

What You Need To Know

  • Recent gunfire at airplanes has made travel and shipping of goods impossible to the island of Haiti
  • The FAA stopped U.S. airlines from flying into Port-au-Prince Haiti for the next 30 days
  • Since 2016, one Orlando nonprofit has been busy sending essentials to the children of Haiti, but violence on the island is making it more difficult

This will mark the second time this year the airport shut down. In response, the United Nations is limiting humanitarian aid coming into the country, which has left some fearing that Haiti is isolated from the outside world.

Yolaine Normil and her husband Salomy Dorisma have been working as a team to try to get essentials to the children of Haiti for the past eight years.

Both grew up on the island and said that the people there have become desperate.

“It’s hard for them to dress, it’s hard for them to eat, it’s hard for them to get potable water,” said Normil.

The couple created The New Creation Heartgiver, a nonprofit designed to help those in need across Haiti.

“They can’t go to school, they can’t eat, can’t dress, so that is my goal is to help them,” said Dorisma.

Many of the items they ship come from Central Florida residents who stop by and donate the essentials. Other goods, the couple purchases out-of-pocket.

The two know that many of the items they ship, because of the gangs, may not be received for six months, if at all.

“I sent one package for the kids to eat," Normil said. "In the last six months until now, they still did not receive it."

The couple says they are desperate for non-perishable items such as backpacks, pencils, toilet paper and canned foods.

To see how you can help, visit The New Creation Heartgiver website.