[2] The Indian community in Haiti consists mainly of professionals, businessmen, and volunteers from the congregation of the Sisters of Charity.
The community is made up of immigrants from India as well as other Caribbean islands such as Martinique and Guadeloupe.
There is also an influx of Haitian children born to Afro-Haitian mothers and Sri Lankan Tamil fathers.
[3] There were about 40 Indian families scattered around the country at the time, some of whom had been living with the FPU for several days.
Those who were wishing to return to India found themselves unable to do so as they could not get into the neighbouring Dominican Republic, which is the only way out of there since there were no direct commercial flights in and out of Haiti.