Businesses and government offices are slowly reopening in Haiti after violent demonstrations over the past week.
However, schools remain closed amid concerns of more violence. Crews were clearing barricaded streets where tens of thousands of Haitians had protested to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise, spurred by anger about skyrocketing inflation and the government's failure to prosecute those responsible for embezzlement from a multi-billion-dollar Venezuelan program.
Windsor-based charity, Hearts Together for Haiti, runs a school in the country but it is safe.
Board member Marcia Spratt told AM800's The Afternoon News that members of the group have made their way to the island nation through all types of disasters in the past but says the uprising is on a whole other level.
"What can I say, that's why Haiti needs our help," she says. "Now they're having an uprising, but we would definitely not think of going down there right now."
Spratt says the areas where staff and students are laying low are safe because the organization consistently takes care of everyone.
"There are about 400 kids in our school and they know they can depend on us, they don't have quite as much reason to be as angry as their neighbours," she says.
People have begun lining up to buy food, water and gas. Public transportation has also resumed in the capital of Port-au-Prince.