On the morning of Saturday, August 14, 2021, a 7.2 earthquake struck Southwest Haiti where NOVA’s medical clinics are located. Unlike the 2010 earthquake which was centered near Port au Prince and did not significantly affect our community, yesterday’s earthquake was a direct hit Thankfully, our staff and their families are safe, but several of them have lost their homes. NOVA’s main clinic and headquarters suffered severe damage and is currently uninhabitable and unusable as a clinic, but due to the high quality of the construction, the building did not collapse and nobody was harmed.