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NOVA offers Dental Care for the First Time
During NOVA’s 20th Medical Mission in November 2015, NOVA collaborated with Arise & Walk Ministries Foundation, Inc. to provide dental care to our patients for the first time. The dental team was lead by Dr. Mayra Suero-Wade, DDS, MPH, Executive Director of Arise & Walk Ministries. Since NOVA’s missions began, we have always seen a need for dental…
Read MoreNOVA’s 19th Medical Mission and Inauguration
In April, a team comprised of two adult doctors, three pediatricians, two nurses, one EMT, seven Creole translators, one team leader, one facility manager, one photographer, and two non-medical support volunteers went on NOVA’s 19th Medical Mission. It was a landmark mission. We stayed at NOVA’s brand new volunteer residence for the first time. For…
Read MoreNOVA’s well: providing clean water to our neighbors
NOVA’s mission is to provide much needed healthcare and health education to the people of Cavaillon and surrounding villages. As part of our building project we had to dig a new well to provide our facility with water. We were lucky, when we dug our well, to tap into an aquifer that has abundant clean water about…
Read MoreNOVA goes green: New Solar panels installed
The first week of January of this year, NOVA Hope for Haiti’s new clinic and volunteer residence was fitted with a new solar energy system to provide our electricity needs and alleviate our need for running generators to provide our facility with power. Electricity in Haiti is not reliable and in Cavaillon, while there is state power…
Read MoreNOVA’s Volunteer Residence Open to host groups
NOVA Hope for Haiti’s facility is two floors: The ground floor is our medical clinic from which our staff in Haiti provides medical care year round, and where our medical mission teams now work from when we send medical teams to augment the care our staff provides. The facility is clean, modern, well furnished and…
Read MoreOctober set up mission got our new building ready to open
In mid-October, days before the 18th medical mission team arrived, nine NOVA non-medical volunteers traveled to Haiti to furnish the new clinic in Cavaillon with over $30,000 worth of supplies, furniture, and medical equipment. During the summer, a 40′ sea container was shipped from New Jersey to Haiti with everything we needed to get the…
Read MoreNOVA’s 17th Medical Mission was another great success!
NOVA’s 17th Medical Mission traveled to Haiti from April 26 to May 4th to provide medical care to the people of Cavaillon. The team consisted of 24 people including 3 pediatricians, 3 doctors for adult patients, nurses, an EMT, translators and general volunteers. NOVA has a 12 years history and lots of experience sending medical…
Read MoreUpdate on the construction of NOVA’s new clinic
The 17th Medical Mission team visited the construction site of NOVA’s new clinic twice during their week-long mission. The building in progressing very well. Stage one – the renovation of the existing farmhouse – is nearing completion and the foundation is being dug for the new Pharmacy and Laboratory wing. This addition will double the…
Read MoreNOVA’s 18th Medical Mission held in our new building
NOVA’s 18th Medical Mission successfully ran NOVA’s first medical mission from our new clinic in Cavaillon, Haiti. The team was composed of over 20 medical professionals, translators, and assistants. The team worked with NOVA’s medical staff in Haiti to see hundreds of patients over the course of the eight day mission. For the first time…
Read MoreNew well complete
Small things can make a big difference, like NOVA’s new well which was just dug last week to provide water to our pediatric clinic and volunteer residence on the second floor. The house which NOVA purchased has been stripped to just the outer walls, and completely rebuilt to become our new clinic. This means that…
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