An American Teenager in Haiti

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…

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Here 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…

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NOVA readies for Missions number 16 and 17!

NOVA Hope for Haiti has decided to return to a tradition that was part of our early history: we are sending 2 mission trips in the next 6 months.  For years NOVA sent two missions per year to Haiti until cost and volunteer burn-out made it better for us to send one mission per year.…

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The Suffering of the Anonymous Poor

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…

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Thank You to our friends at DOMUS

I would like to thank our friends Luisa and Nicki at DOMUS for choosing NOVA Hope for Haiti to be the recipient for their annual Garage Sale Fundraiser for the third year in a row.  Because of their hard work, the hard work of our volunteers who worked in the heat on June 1st to…

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Meet the staff of the Boileau Clinic

                Altenord Nixon, M.D Born in Les Cayes, Haiti, January 18, 1974.  He studied in the Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Sante de l’Université Lumière in Port au Prince, Haiti and graduated with his degree in Medicine in 2004.  He was the part time medical…

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Centre Materno et Infantil de Boileau Operational!

On February 4, 2013 NOVA Hope for Haïti commenced operating the Centre Materno et Infantil de Boileau in conjunction with the Haitian Pilgrims of Lewisville, TX.  As the name implies, although open to the population at large CMIB is creating programs that will address women of child bearing age, pregnant women and new born infants…

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NOVA’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…

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NOVA patient: Joseph Robes

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…

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NOVA’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…

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