After three years of traveling back and forth from Haiti to Orcas, Rosedanie Cadet has decided to spend the next year on just one island. Hear Cadet speak about her time in Haiti so far and her nonprofit Helping Hands Noramise at 6 p.m. in Benson Hall, Episcopal Church on May 21.

After being gone from her country for 37 years, Cadet visited her homeland in 2009 just  weeks before Haiti was devastated by the 7.0 earthquake that left more than 300,000 residents dead. In the following months, 6,000 died of cholera.

Cadet’s life was irrevocably changed. She eventually founded the nonprofit Helping Hands Noramise in the northern town of Limbe, which provides social and developmental programs for income, pride and social activism. Cadet said it’s not a charity program  – everyone must volunteer to receive the benefits of education, fresh food from their garden or chlorine for water purification.