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NOVA’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 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 MoreMedical Mission Volunteer Meeting Sunday February 23rd
There is a meeting for NOVA volunteers interested in coming on the April 26 – May 4th Medical Mission to Cavaillon, Haiti on Sunday, February 23 at 11 AM In the St. Francis House at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi 135 W. 31st Street New York, NY 10001 Please note: the spots for…
Read MoreNOVA’s 16th Mission a big success!
In November 2013, NOVA Hope for Haiti sent out 16th Medical Mission team to Haiti to provide medical care in Cavaillon, Haiti. Since 2005 NOVA has been providing medical care to the population in and around Cavaillon. Barring natural disasters like hurricanes which have prevented our mission one year, we have been a consistent presence…
Read MoreHere and There
By Irene Gutmann I went to Haiti with NOVA for the first time this year but had been to the country 30 years ago. I have the weirdest feeling when I am there. I can’t quite wrap my mind around Haiti. I can’t put it into the boxes or categories that work in the rest…
Read MoreNOVA’s Mobile medical team: The road to Flammand
It has long been a goal of NOVA to break out of our central clinic in Cavaillon and to take medical teams to more remote villages in the surrounding areas to try to help people who are sick and cannot make it to the town to come to our clinic. It would seem like a…
Read MoreNOVA’s 15th Medical Mission a great success!
On January 26th 28 volunteers departed from JFK airport in New York to fly to Haiti for NOVA’s 15th medical mission. The team from New York and New Jersey met 6 other volunteers from Florida, Texas and Haiti at the Port au Prince airport. With 34 doctors, nurses, translators and volunteers this was the largest…
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…
Read MoreMay 2012 Medical Mission
NOVA Hope for Haiti is sending our 12th medical mission to Haiti May 5-13, 2012. In partnership with the Church of the Presentation in Upper Saddle River, NJ, we are sending a team of 24 doctors, nurses, translators and support volunteers to open an emergency care clinic for 7 days in Cavaillon, Haiti. The core…
Read MoreMother-Child Program
NOVA Hope for Haiti has been providing medical care in southern Haiti for almost a decade through our volunteer medical missions. It has long been our goal to establish permanent care in the community we serve. As is unfortunately the case in Haiti we have hit many bumps and snags in trying to realize this…
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