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Once complete, NOVA's complex will allow us to provide care to children and adults in Haiti who have absolutely no access to medical care. Read More...Our Mission
We are a non-profit group that provides medical care to the most neglected in the Western Hemisphere.
Our goal is sustainable healthcare that achieves measurable outcome improvement. Our methods include treatment of disease, and more importantly, prevention and health education.Get Updates
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News
May 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 More...]
Life 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 More...]
Mother-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 [Read More...]
Here we go again!
NOVA Hope for Haiti is sending our 11th medical mission to Haiti tomorrow. In partnership with the Church of the Presentation in Upper Saddle River, NJ, we are sending a team of 26 doctors, nurses, translators and support volunteers to open an emergency care clinic for 7 days in Cavaillon, Haiti. The bins are packed [Read More...]
One year anniversary of the earthquake
As the board of directors continues to plan for the construction of our permanent medical facility in Cavaillon, Haiti, and as the Medical Mission team of volunteers plans our next medical mission in March 2011, we also remember with great sadness the tragic losses caused by the earthquake one year ago today. The news is [Read More...]
Happy Holidays from NOVA Hope for Haiti
Dear friends of NOVA Hope for Haiti, This past year was a tough year for our friends in Haiti. Almost a year ago, a devestating earthquake claimed over a quarter of a million lives in Port au Prince, Jacmel, Leogane and other towns in the area. The capital is in ruins and is having a [Read More...]
Good news and bad news
NOVA Hope for Haiti and the Church of the Presentation were scheduled to hold their 11th medical mission to Haiti this week. Our team was scheduled to fly to Port-au-Prince on Saturday, November 6th, but do to the flooding caused by hurricane Tomas and the torrential rain it brought we needed to cancel this trip. [Read More...]
Meet Jean Danson!
During NOVA’s April 2010 medical mission to Haiti, our volunteer medical team examined a little 4 year old boy, Jean-Danson Etienne. Danson’s mom said that he was becoming listless and often had little energy. A simple stethoscope revealed a significant heart murmur that our medical team became worried about. There was nothing more we could [Read More...]
NOVA Hope for Haiti’s 10th Medical Mission a great success!
On Saturday, April 17th 27 NOVA Hope for Haiti launched its 10th Medical mission to Cavaillon, Haiti. The 27 member team consisted of doctors, nurses, translators and other volunteers. Since 2002, these medical teams have been providing urgently needed medical care in a community that has none, and since the earthquake this past January the [Read More...]
2 New teams in Haiti and another on the way
Sorry for the delay, but the executive board of NOVA Hope for Haiti and NOVA volunteers have been meeting and working feverishly on getting back in the saddle while still helping with the earthquake relief. While Haiti is receding from view in the news, our efforts have been ramping up even more. Last Thursday NOVA [Read More...]
