At the Centro de Saúde Daniel Ornelas (CSDO) clinic in Kasait, Timor-Leste, Dr Eva plays a vital role in providing compassionate healthcare to the Ulmera community.
Thanks to our compassionate supporters, and our project partner Jesuit Social Service Timor-Leste, the CSDO clinic and its mobile outreach provide essential free medical care and medicines to families who might otherwise go without.
Raised in Dili, Dr Eva now travels each day by motorbike to the clinic. Since joining CSDO in 2024, she has grown both personally and spiritually through her work, becoming closer to God and finding a deep sense of peace and fulfilment.
“The smile of the people we support is the most valuable thing in the world.”
Dr Eva
Alongside her team, Dr Eva visits remote communities to provide checkups, home visits and health education. The journeys are long and the challenges real, but her compassion and grace never fade.
“As doctors, we are called to be mirrors for others to treat people with love, humility, and equality,” she reflects. “Medicine is not only about healing the body; it is about touching lives with compassion and seeing each person as a creation of God.”
Beyond her patients, Dr Eva extends her healthcare and health education to students, teachers and families of the neighbouring Jesuit schools, Colégio Santo Inácio de Loiola (CSIL) and Instituto São João de Brito (ISJB).
Thanks to ongoing support from our Jesuit Mission community, Dr Eva and her team have provided medical care to nearly 5,000 people in 2025 in rural Timor-Leste. Find out more about this program.
This story comes from Reflections Summer 2026.
Contents include:
- A future takes flight in Thailand
- Honouring dignity in Cambodia
- Healing with heart in Timor-Leste
- Finding safety and hope in the midst of war, Ukraine
- Lighting the way through education in Myanmar
- Fr Bob’s Fifty Years in Hazaribag
