News & Events
Announcement:
UPCOMING MISSION TO Churuquita Chiquita, Panama
JANUARY 17TH - 25TH, 2026
Dear NEVOSH Members and Supporters,
We are thrilled to officially announce the NEVOSH January 2026 mission to Panama over Martin Luther King week (Jan 17-25, 2026)!
We will be working in Churuquita Chiquita in the Coclé Province at the Instituto Carmen Conte Lombardo. This will be our 5th time in this area (after 2015, 2020, 2024, and 2025). We will again be hosted by the Dorado Rotary Club who are already well underway with the planning. The comfortable Hotel Coclé will act as our home base.
The itinerary for the week will remain the same as always. The group will assemble at Tocumen International Airport in Panama City on Saturday Jan 17th and will be transported to the mission site hotel. On Sunday we'll spend the day setting up the clinic. Monday through Thursday will be filled with treating patients. Friday and Saturday will be optional R&R days (location TBD) before returning to the airport on Sunday Jan 25th.
Applications will be reviewed on a first come first serve basis, but preference will be given to returning members and to health care providers in under represented specialties. The final roster will be selected based on each clinic group's needs.
If you have a preference for roommates, please list it on the application. Otherwise we'll do our best to group people appropriately.
Application Instructions
1) All applications (see attached) must be received by September 30th. After the application process closes, the documents will be sent to Panama for approval and no further missionaries will be added.
2) Applications will not be considered until ALL supporting documentation is received. Some of the documents require notarization, so start to gather them now. If a document will be expiring, send the expiring document now and the updated one after you get it.
3) Space will be limited. Priority will be given to returning members. Returning members will be given individual approval as soon as their completed application is received. New member approval will be dependent upon how many spots remain and they will be notified no later than October 15th. Check your spam folder or reach out to us if you don't hear by then.
4) The application fee and mission fee deposit will be refundable only to applicants that are not accepted. For accepted members, the remaining mission fee balance (for hotel, transportation, and group meals) will be collected closer to the mission date once the amounts have been determined.
5) Make sure the email address listed on your application matches the email address that receives this Google Group message. If you would like to change the email address where you receive these group messages, please let me know and I'll update it.
2025 PANAMA MISSION RECAP
Congratulations on such a successful mission week with roughly over 3,300 combined patients seen over four days. It was amazing to see how quickly and efficiently the group came together, set up the clinic, and started treating patients, particularly with so many first-timers with us this year. It was the hard-working, enthusiastic, and caring members new and old that made the week so wonderful.
2025 Clinic Numbers (total exams):
Eyes 1404
Medicine 1049
Dental 506
Audiology 389
Total 3348