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Cuban People Appreciate the International Assistance Received
People from the eastern Holguin province, as all over Cuba, are appreciative of the international assistance received, which has arrived despite the US efforts to strangle Cuba by tightening the blockade.
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People from the eastern Holguin province, as all over Cuba, are appreciative of the international assistance received, which has arrived despite the US efforts to strangle Cuba by tightening the blockade.
The eastern Cuban province population has received aid from several countries and organizations, handled upon arrival by the Provincial Defense Council which organized an immediate distribution of the shipments. The Council includes representatives of the ministries of Foreign Investment and Economic Collaboration, Auditing and Controls,
and Economy and Planning.
In statements to Granma newspaper Council chief Alvaro Grass explained that Holguin has received eight containers of assistance, with a value of around US$ 100,000. The contents went mainly to evacuation centers in Gibara, Rafael Freyre, Banes, Mayari, Moa, Antilla and benefited 1,744 persons.
Grass said a shipment from Jamaica arrived with 21 tons of food products, which were sent to homes for the elderly, birthing homes and evacuation centers. Also some 10,000 sheets of zinc roofing material and 15,444 wood beams came from the Dominican Republic and went towards the repair of food storage warehouses and other Interior Commerce facilities.
Meanwhile Canada sent windup flashlights, tents to protect merchandise, rope and work gloves and Brazil sent milk powder, cassava flour, oil, beans, and sugar; and from Panama shoes, clothing and other products.
Other containers have also come in from religious organizations.
Making sure these donations arrive to their destinations involves mobilizing the efforts of hundreds of people. Roberto Fernandez Duran and Ismael Martell La O, drivers of a truck-trailer of the Servi Express company, were in charge of transporting one of the containers loaded with donations from Brazil and Panama.
Despite the long trip, prolonged because of a breakdown, Roberto took to the wheel of a front loader to help unload the trailer in the shortest time possible.
At a home for the elderly in Holguin we came across Manuel Fonseca Gonzalez, 68, who moves in his wheelchair with great agility throughout the facility. Manuel is always in a good mood according to Maritza Leyva, the home’s dietitian. He smiles and observes the people in the home of some 135, grateful for the assistance received from Jamaica.
Ariel Mendoza, the administrator and Yoleinis Leyva, the head nurse, expressed the gratitude of the elderly residents and the 88 workers at the center.
Dr. Gelsis Cedeño Matos, manager of the March 8 birthing home of Holguin said the help has improved the variety of food pregnant women receive at the center. Presently there are 66, she said.
Dr. Cedeño said the products received —including drinks, nutritional chocolate, coconut cookies, tomato paste— have an important nutritional value.
These won’t be the only donations. There are others that will arrive once the paperwork is done, said Alvaro Grass.
To say that with this help we will resolve our problems would be an exaggeration; but to belittle the value of the gesture is unfair to those that helped provide it.
The example of thousands of Cubans defying the most adverse conditions in other countries, in the fulfillment with internationalist missions carried out by the Revolution, now motivates millions to bring the encouragement of solidarity to Cuba.
The eastern Cuban province population has received aid from several countries and organizations, handled upon arrival by the Provincial Defense Council which organized an immediate distribution of the shipments. The Council includes representatives of the ministries of Foreign Investment and Economic Collaboration, Auditing and Controls,
and Economy and Planning.
In statements to Granma newspaper Council chief Alvaro Grass explained that Holguin has received eight containers of assistance, with a value of around US$ 100,000. The contents went mainly to evacuation centers in Gibara, Rafael Freyre, Banes, Mayari, Moa, Antilla and benefited 1,744 persons.
Grass said a shipment from Jamaica arrived with 21 tons of food products, which were sent to homes for the elderly, birthing homes and evacuation centers. Also some 10,000 sheets of zinc roofing material and 15,444 wood beams came from the Dominican Republic and went towards the repair of food storage warehouses and other Interior Commerce facilities.
Meanwhile Canada sent windup flashlights, tents to protect merchandise, rope and work gloves and Brazil sent milk powder, cassava flour, oil, beans, and sugar; and from Panama shoes, clothing and other products.
Other containers have also come in from religious organizations.
Making sure these donations arrive to their destinations involves mobilizing the efforts of hundreds of people. Roberto Fernandez Duran and Ismael Martell La O, drivers of a truck-trailer of the Servi Express company, were in charge of transporting one of the containers loaded with donations from Brazil and Panama.
Despite the long trip, prolonged because of a breakdown, Roberto took to the wheel of a front loader to help unload the trailer in the shortest time possible.
At a home for the elderly in Holguin we came across Manuel Fonseca Gonzalez, 68, who moves in his wheelchair with great agility throughout the facility. Manuel is always in a good mood according to Maritza Leyva, the home’s dietitian. He smiles and observes the people in the home of some 135, grateful for the assistance received from Jamaica.
Ariel Mendoza, the administrator and Yoleinis Leyva, the head nurse, expressed the gratitude of the elderly residents and the 88 workers at the center.
Dr. Gelsis Cedeño Matos, manager of the March 8 birthing home of Holguin said the help has improved the variety of food pregnant women receive at the center. Presently there are 66, she said.
Dr. Cedeño said the products received —including drinks, nutritional chocolate, coconut cookies, tomato paste— have an important nutritional value.
These won’t be the only donations. There are others that will arrive once the paperwork is done, said Alvaro Grass.
To say that with this help we will resolve our problems would be an exaggeration; but to belittle the value of the gesture is unfair to those that helped provide it.
The example of thousands of Cubans defying the most adverse conditions in other countries, in the fulfillment with internationalist missions carried out by the Revolution, now motivates millions to bring the encouragement of solidarity to Cuba.