Posts by Jan Mansley
NOVA’s Mobile Medical Clinics
NOVA Hope for Haiti not only provides medical care at our clinics in Martineau and Boileau. We also bring “Mobile Medical Clinics” to people living in villages too far to travel to our permanent clinics. During each volunteer medical mission and, for the first time, during our recent maintenance mission, we conduct one of these…
Read MoreCocktails for a Cause a huge success!
Thank you to everyone who came out to make our Cocktails for a Cause a huge success! Since Hurricane Matthew NOVA Hope for Haiti has raised over $115,000 to help our community of Cavaillon, Haiti recover after the devastation of the storm. We are rebuilding homes, helping the town replant its destroyed crops and repairing…
Read MoreCocktails for a Cause
Please join us on Thursday, November 10th from 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. at Olgilvy and Mather, located at 636 11th Ave (SE corner of 47th Street) to help support NOVA Hope for Haiti and the hurricane relief efforts at our clinic. The town of Cavaillon, where our clinic is located, suffered immense flooding damage.…
Read MoreCelebrating our Mothers
In Haiti, Mothers’ Day will be celebrated on Sunday May 29th, the last Sunday of May. Any woman involved in the raising of a child is considered the mother – birth mother, grandmother, sister, Aunt, friend of the family or people at the orphanage. Overtime, a child may have several women fill a maternal role in…
Read MoreNOVAs 14th Medical Mission a Great Success
NOVA Hope for Haiti conducts two types of volunteer missions each year: Medical and Non-medical Maintenance missions. Medical Missions: Twice every year, NOVA sends teams of skilled medical practitioners to our permanent clinic to supplement and work with our Haitian medical staff. Typically we send up to six doctors, preferably three pediatricians and three adult…
Read MoreLife in Cavaillon, Haiti
Images by Tony Savino, 2010
Read MoreCavaillon, Haiti
NOVA Hope for Haiti chose the town of Cavaillon, Haiti, for the seat of our mission in 2004. Cavaillon was chosen by the board of directors of NOVA after two teams flew to Haiti from the US to explore a number of communities where the mission could have been helpful. The first team explored communities…
Read MoreHere 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 MoreOne 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 MoreHappy 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…
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