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NOVA’s 19th Medical Mission getting ready
NOVA’s team has been working diligently over the past 2 weeks to prepare for our very first medical mission where the team will treat patients in the first floor of our clinic and live in the second floor residence. It has taken eight years of hard work, support of our friends and families (both financially…
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 MoreHaitian Creole Translators Needed for next mission
Do you speak Haitian Creole? Are you interested in helping Haiti out in a meaningful way? We are in need of volunteer translators for our 19th Medical Mission, April 13-21. We have a team of doctors, nurses, translators and organizers ready to travel to Haiti to provide medical care to the people in and around…
Read MoreNOVA’s New Clinic in Cavaillon is open year round!
NOVA Hope for Haiti is pleased to announce that our permanent clinic in Cavaillon, Haiti was opened in October 2014 and our staff is treating patients there year round! NOVA Hope for Haiti has been providing medical care in Haiti since 2002. In February of 2013, in partnership with the Haitian Pilgrims of Texas, we…
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 MoreRaise money for NOVA when you shop on Amazon this Holiday Season!
Shop through Amazon Smile and NOVA gets a donation! One of the easiest ways to support NOVA on an ongoing basis is to do your Amazon shopping through the Smile program. Click on http://smile.amazon.com/ch/20-1854025 and start shopping. All of your account history, addresses, orders, etc. carry over to Smile – it’s that easy! Shop through…
Read MoreNOVA Patient: Keysha
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.…
Read MoreMeet NOVA patient Carlo Amazon
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…
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