Life

In January 2016, a NOVA team of volunteers visited the home of our patient Keysha. Just 15 months ago in October 2014, Keysha arrived at our clinic with a potentially deadly eye infection. Dr. Waseem Hafeez, a pediatric emergency room physician drained the infection and began Keysha on antibiotics to deal with the infection. Her…

On every mission there is a patient or two who stand out to our volunteers.  On this trip it was little Keysha.  A few of NOVA’s volunteers met Keysha when they were on a walk in Cavaillon.  Keysha, a toddler, walked out of her front door just as NOVA’s volunteers were talking to her neighbor.…

The following article has been submitted by NOVA volunteer Dr. Dina Daswani, M.D. who was on NOVA’s 17th Medical Mission in May 2014: I first met Carlo Amazon and his grandmother in the NOVA Hope for Haiti Clinic in Cavaillon, Haiti on a hot and busy day in May 2014. As the translator began to…

Below is the story of Baby Dave, a child who came to the NOVA clinic in February 2013 suffering from severe malnutrition.  Dave has been receiving check ups by Dr. Altenord, NOVA’s physician in Haiti, at our clinic in Boileau.  His grandmother brought him to NOVA’s volunteer team at our May 2014 Medical mission to show…

During his senior year of high school, Christopher Wren joined the team on a mission trip.  Here he reflects on experiencing the Haitian culture and volunteering for NOVA Hope for Haiti.   My recent trip to Haiti has opened my eyes to the rest of the world. Between the happy and sociable children and the…

By Barbara Preziosi We have all seen it in pictures; the blank or pleading stares, the hands reaching out for pity, the mothers holding the starving baby.  I think I, like many of us, had become almost a “Doubting Thomas”.  Unless we can see these  Children of God in person and nurse their wounds, they…

Joseph Robes was 7 years old when he came to NOVA’s clinic in May 2012. His condition was serious. He was extremely ill, malnourished and his mother feared that he was dying.  Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Sarah Wren was primarily responsible for his care, but she included the entire pediatric team of the 2012 mission to help…

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…