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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…

In November 2015 NOVA Hope for Haiti hit a great milestone: we sent to Haiti our 20th Medical Mission to Haiti!  This is a great gift to our friends in Haiti who rely on the medical care NOVA’s medical missions bring.  NOVA’s 20 medical missions have saved lives.  They have brought care, comfort and healing…

During NOVA’s 20th Medical Mission in November 2015, NOVA collaborated with Arise & Walk Ministries Foundation, Inc. to provide dental care to our patients for the first time.  The dental team was lead by Dr. Mayra Suero-Wade, DDS, MPH, Executive Director of Arise & Walk Ministries. Since NOVA’s missions began, we have always seen a need for dental…

In April, a team comprised of two adult doctors, three pediatricians, two nurses, one EMT, seven Creole translators, one team leader, one facility manager, one photographer, and two non-medical support volunteers went on NOVA’s 19th Medical Mission. It was a landmark mission.  We stayed at NOVA’s brand new volunteer residence for the first time. For…

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…