oseph Willard Vancol, a Community Voice Silenced

Twenty days after his abduction in Gressier, Joseph Willard Vancol was found dead on September 9, 2026. Aged 73, the coordinator of ITECA’s training center and director of Ti Boukan FM leaves behind several decades devoted to communities. Abducted on August 20 during an armed attack on the training center of the Institute of Technology and Facilitation (ITECA), in Petit-Boukan, the center had gone nearly three weeks without any news of him. According to ITECA, a team from the institution, accompanied by officers from the Haitian National Pol