Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Ten Americans detained last week while trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association, a government official said. Information Minister Marie Laurence Lassegue's announcement came shortly after the five men and five women left a hearing at the prosecutor's office. Under Haitian law, anyone accused of kidnapping a child is not eligible for bail, the attorney general's office said. Conviction on the kidnapping charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison; the criminal association charge carries a penalty of three to nine years, according to a former justice minister.10 Americans charged with kidnapping, criminal associationMissionaries denied bail because kidnapping charges involve childrenMissionaries say they were trying to help children leave countryHaitian government says group was trying to kidnap children 
 Question:He expressed gratitude for the work of the vast majority of _ who have helped in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake that he said killed at least 212,000 people.

Americans