Operation Hope for Children of Haiti | OHFCOH

The President appoints Operation Hope's Executive Team, including the General Director, the Project Directors, the Chief of Staff, the Public and International Relations Representatives, the Senior Vice Presidents of finance and the Administrative Counsel based in Haiti. The Executive Team oversees the Administrative Counsel, the Human Resources, the Program and Project Directors, and the Public and International Relations Representatives 

Operation Hope's Board of Directors as well as the Administrative Counsel based in Haiti, are a group of volunteering individuals serving without compensation. In some instances, members of the Counsel if working on a full time or part time basis may work at a minimum based salary. The Board of Directors/Administrative Counsel is the organization's governing body. They are elected by the members at our regular annual meeting for a one year renewable term. Each member may be reelected annually.

The Board Members and the Administrative Counsel have the primary responsibility of attaining a basic understanding and set off actions in support of Operation Hope's mission and objectives. This includes creating, advertising, assisting in increasing Operation Hope's outreach efforts and boosting its visibility and donor support. The Board of Directors confers with Operation Hope's president and appoints the Administrative Counsel who also has a one year renewable mandate and may be reelected by the members through our regular annual meeting.

Eddy Delaleu

Dr. Eddy Delaleu is the Founder and President of Operation Hope for Children of Haiti. He is a member of the International Rotary Club. 

Dr. Eddy served as project director, general director, newsletter editor and many other positions of the corporation since its inception in 1994.

His management, determination, tactical planning and his beliefs in accomplishing one's goal, have helped the organization achieve its status today as one of the Non Governmental Organizations working in Haiti. Prior to founding OHFCOH, Eddy served approximately six years in the US Armed Forces and as an teacher in the US.  He served as the Coordinator of Student Affairs (COSA) at Paul Robenson High in New York city.

Eddy is a self made man with a true heart for the poor and a natural love for people, in general. His extensive background and general knowledge has made him the vanguard leader of Operation Hope. For more than a decade, he never ceased to weather all obstacles and various challenges that had long ago prevented him from helping the underprivileged children and families of Haiti as a young boy.

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Eddy's mother, Alourdes, made reluctantly the ultimate sacrifice that any mother could have made in realizing her inability to care for a child. He was given for adoption and as such, was given the opportunity for a better future to live a normal childhood in a successful, middle class family. He attended a Catholic middle school "Sacred Heart", graduated from high school "Lycée Alexandre Pétion" completing the Rhetoric and Philosophy requirements for graduation .  In the US, he graduated from Columbus College in Georgia with a BA in Speech Language Pathology and a minor in Audiology. He graduated from Auburn University in Alabama with a Masters Degree in Foreign Language Studies. He later was awarded an honorary Doctorate Divinity Degree and was granted the title of Reverend as an ordained minister.

 E-mail: eddy@operationhopeforchildren.org

Jenny Delaleu

Ms. Delaleu is the Executive Secretary of Operation Hope, and has recently embarked on a medical mission to Operation Hope's headquarters to help serve the medically underserved in Haiti.

She has been serving the healthcare community since 1999. She is a mastered prepared family nurse practitioner and holds a minor in nursing informatics. She is currently employed as a nurse practitioner in New York City.  She holds interests in critical care medicine, family medicine and technological advances in medicine, today. She is well known for her compassion in caring for patients, her professionalism and competitive edge and aptitude in use of the electronic medical record and personal digital assistants, at the point of care. Jenny is a critical care Certified Registered Nurse (CCRN) and is a board-certified nurse practitioner with the ANCC. She is a member of the NPALI, Nurse Practitioner Association of Long Island.  

 E-mail: jenny@operationhopeforchildren.org | Mobile: 516.582.2568

Joanne Delaleu

 Joanne is the currently coordinator of Operation Hope for Children of Haiti. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and currently works with patients in the surgical intensive care unit at New York University Medical Center. She is currently enrolled in an Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program in anticipation of a Master’s Degree. Her passion is traveling and caring for the medically underprivileged. Her goal is to use her nursing expertise to assist her Haitian countrymen.  She also has hopes to join Jenny, her sister in opening a health clinic in the New York State area in the near future.  

 E-mail: joanne@operationhopeforchildren.org

 James W. Martinsen

James is an advisor to Operation Hope.  He is the co-founder, and Chief Financial Officer for East End Disability Associates, Inc. EEDA is a 501(c)(3) not for profit corporation serving the needs of the developmentally disabled on Long Island, New York. Initially, advocacy was one of his first concerns, but lack of available services on the east end of Long Island eventually became the driving force that contributed to the development of EEDA. EEDA runs numerous Individual Residential Alternative homes, along with a number of Day Habilitation programs. In addition to business management experience, Jim has held a number of positions in various social service fields to include Food Bank management, teen counseling and worked with various homeless shelters.

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