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NOVA Hope for Haiti: Hope for the Children Benefit Dinner tickets on sale
Tickets are now on sale for our benefit dinner! NOVA Hope for Haiti: Hope for the Children Benefit Dinner. Monday, October 22, 2012, at the Manhattan Penthouse 6:30 – 8:00 PM – Cocktail Hour / Silent Auction 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM Dinner Our goal for this evening is to raise $150,000 to build a Pediatric Clinic,…
Read MoreNOVA Finds Temporary Home at the Boileau Clinic!
A previous article was written in these pages [see October 20, 2011] about NOVA’s initial full-time medical program that will be offered to local residents of Greater Cavaillon, Haïti. We have been seeking a temporary location from which to launch the Mother-Child monitoring program that will follow and manage pregnant women and their children up…
Read MoreNOVA’s May 2012 Clinic Photo Gallery
Over 1200 patients were seen by a team of 26 volunteers including 8 doctors, nurses, translators and organizers. These images capture some of what NOVA’s work looks like on the ground. Thank you for helping us to continue to provide healthcare in Haiti. Photos by Jason Reblando.
Read MoreThe story of one child saved by NOVA’s work: Wilkens Norde`
It is not too often that we talk about saving lives at NOVA Hope for Haiti, but it is absolutely true. It would be disingenuous for us to claim that we have saved hundreds of lives, but it is true to say that at each of our 13 medical missions over the years we have…
Read MoreSave the Date: Hope for the Children Benefit dinner
UPDATE: PURCHASE TICKETS NOW HERE! On October 22, 2012 NOVA Hope for Haiti will be hosting a fundraiser in Manhattan to raiser money to build phase I of our Martineau Building Project: The Pediatric Clinic. Our goal for this evening is to raise $150,000 to build and run the clinic for the first year. If…
Read MoreLife and Death in Haïti . . . why NOVA’s mission matters
This four-year old little girl was carried on her frail mother’s shoulders some five miles through the countryside from the pounded earth floor of their thatched mountainside hut to NOVA’s 11th medical mission this past April 2011. Word spreads fast in Haïti and this child had been ill with recurring respiratory distress. Shortness of breath…
Read MoreA nurse reflects on her first medical mission in Haiti
My name is Kristin Preziosi, and in May of 2012 I went on my first Medical Mission with NOVA to Haiti. My mother is a nurse and had gone on the mission in 2011. I had heard her stories and saw that she was obviously moved by the experience. My father is also involved with…
Read MoreVideo of the May 2012 Medical Mission
There will be more information coming about our May 2012 Medical Mission to Haiti. It was a great success and it was NOVA’s 12th Mission in 10 years. Here is a video overview of what our week long mission looked like. Please enjoy this video and thank you for your support!
Read MoreMay 2012 Medical Mission ready to go
Some volunteers are still packing frantically at 10:30 PM on the night before NOVA sends it’s 12th Medical Mission to Haiti. Some of our volunteers, are already packed but have to work a night shift the night before our 7:00 AM appointment at Kennedy Airport, making a huge sacrifice for the people of Haiti. Still…
Read MoreFULL-SIZE SCHOOL BUS DONATED TO NOVA
The Order of Malta has donated to NOVA Hope for Haiti a reconditioned full-size school bus that was recently decommissioned from active service. This gift was made possible by G. Robert Reers, a Knight of the Order of Malta and coordinator of the Order of Malta School Bus Program that provides transportation vehicles to non-profit…
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