OUR NOVEMBER 2021 MISSION WAS A GREAT SUCCESS
With our dedicated team of volunteers we were able to administer to over 1000 patients between Dajabon and Restauracion.
Thank you to all who donated and all gave of themselves and their time to help make the mission a success
Thank you to everyone who participated in our 2nd Annual Wine Tasting Event with Birrivino. With your generous donations we were able to raise over $2000 to buy medications for our DR mission in November
September 2021
Hope you all have been well these past 18 months. We’d like to give you an update on what we've been doing with waves of health since the start of the pandemic.2020 started strong with our week long mission to Uganda, where we provided care to the people of Kavule. In April, we were forced, with much sadness, to cancel our annual fundraising gala honoring Mary McCormick APN, and Alexandra Cruz PharmD. We look forward to celebrating them in 2022. Since COVID-19 continued to spread across the world, our Spring 2020 mission to the Dominican Republic was cancelled. While we were unable to attend to our patients ourselves, we were able to send some medications and PPE down to our medical partners. We are proud that, despite the circumstances, we were able to continue providing to the communities we serve. As the Fall rolled around, we prepared a small group of dedicated providers for a mission in November, but due to rising COVID cases and uncertainty, we again had to cancel. We were however, able to send medications for our patients and provide much needed medical supplies as well as PPE for our medical partners in the Dominican Republic who held our clinics for us on 4 Sundays and saw 100 patients each day and provided them with 6-9 months of medications. 2021 brought no reprieve for us or for the people we serve. We were unable to return for our yearly mission to Uganda and once again we were unable to host our annual fundraising gala. As the year progressed, things started to look up and in May we sent a small team of dedicated volunteers to run our medical mission and join forces with our local physician partners to see 100 patients a day and bring much needed support to Dajabon. As we are moving into the Fall we are preparing once again for our November mission. Fingers crossed that it will come to fruition. Looking to the future, we have plans to link up with Backpack EMR, a mobile Electronic Medical Record, to better track, treat, and follow up our patients and we hope to purchase and open a home base in Dajabon for future care. Though these last years have brought plenty of challenges, thanks to your generosity we have been able to provide vital care to our communities when they needed it most. We ask you our loyal supporters to look deep into your hearts as well as your purses. With your help, we can continue our mission to provide healthcare for those in need.
You can help by donating directly to Waves Of Health on our website, thewavesofhealth.org, using Venmo @Waves_of_Health, and / or by joining us in our 2nd Sip for a Brighter Future on instagram in partnership with Birravino in October.
We want to take a moment and let you know how thankful we are for your continued support. In a year filled with so much uncertainty, sadness, and challenge, we were forced to change the way we operate as an organization. Two of our bi-annual medical mission to the Dominican Republic were cancelled, and we had to postpone our Annual Gala. Instead of providing medical care to the underserved, many of our volunteers were on the frontlines risking their health every day for those in need at home.
Although COVID-19 has changed the way we work, it has not stopped us from achieving our mission. We have successfully supplied medications and supplies to our patients in the Dominican Republic, distributed healing kits to healthcare working at home, and launched Waves of Education initiative to build a primary school in Uganda.
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Joining our GivingTuesday campaign
We hope you enjoy a happy, safe, and healthy holiday season!
Introducing Wave of Education
In November, volunteer Alexandra Cruz collaborated with us to launch our first education initiative to build a primary school in Uganda. We have been working in Uganda since 2018, and have seen firsthand the extreme poverty in the forgotten villages.
We believe that every child deserves access to a quality education. Education creates opportunity, a path out of poverty, and leads to better health outcomes and quality of life. Our vision is to empower a community to become self-sustainable by building a school, providing annual free medical care, and developing their vocational skills.
Supporting the Dominican Republic during COVID-19
While the Covid-19 pandemic has stopped a lot of things, it has not been able to stop us from helping our patients in the Dominican Republic. Since we could not physically run our normal mission, we have collaborated with our local partners in the DR who have generously agreed to hold small clinics in our stead, providing the much needed medical care.
On November 14th, board member and volunteer, Dr. Laura Toner, flew to the Dominican Republic to ensure safe distribution of 27 boxes worth of medications and supplies that were shipped for our patients.
Hero Healing Kits
Waves volunteer, Laurie Canvisser, has created “Hero Healing Kits” for front-line healthcare workers. She has distributed hundreds of kits to hospitals around New Jersey and New York City to show her grateful appreciation for their dedication and to help them feel better during these tough times. Thank you Laurie!
Update: Over 100 kits were donated to Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, 53 to Mount Sinai West, 50 to Mount Sinai Main Campus, 30 to St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers, and 20 to the dialysis center at Mountainside Hospital in New Jersey. Kits were organized with items specifically to address the urgent needs of our first responders.
2,000 pairs of Bombas Socks Donated in 2019.
Bombas, a sock company with a mission to give back, was able to donate 2,000 pairs of socks to Waves of Health this year. On the Spring 2019 Medical Mission to Dajabon and Restauracion, our volunteers gave out socks to patients in need. We would like to thank Bombas for their generous donation and hope to continue this wonderful partnership through giving back to the communities we serve.
November 2019 Mission to the DR.
