Havana/The United States embassy in Cuba announced this Wednesday that part of the humanitarian aid offered by the Administration of US President Donald Trump, will reach five provinces on the Island in the coming weeks. Those provinces are Camagüey, Ciego de Ávila, Cienfuegos, Matanzas and Pinar del Río.
The American chargé d’affaires in Havana, Mike Hammer, held a meeting this day with the director of Cáritas Cuba, Carmen María Nodal Martínez, and her team “to coordinate the arrival in the coming weeks of more humanitarian aid,” Washington’s mission in Havana detailed on social networks.
For its part, Cáritas Cuba published a message on its social networks about the previous work it carries out with staff and volunteers of the charitable organization in Lugareño, a town in the province of Camagüey, for the delivery of aid.
“The Cáritas Camagüey Institutional Training team held an orientation workshop and during the meeting the guidelines to follow for the correct delivery of donations were given”
“The Cáritas Camagüey Institutional Training team held an orientation workshop and during the meeting the guidelines were given to follow for the correct delivery of donations, always based on respect, sensitivity, love and spirituality towards the beneficiaries,” the message indicates.
Last week, Cáritas Cuba received a shipment of humanitarian aid sent by the US Government that arrived in the city of Santa Clara (center) with 700 modules of food and hygiene products intended for disadvantaged families.
Cáritas then explained that the Catholic Diocese of Santa Clara and Cáritas Diocesana would be responsible for the direct delivery of this donation to the parish communities of Quemado de Güines and Rancho Veloz.
The modules of this donation include rice, beans, oil, sugar, spaghetti, sardines and tuna, soaps, toothpaste and toothbrushes, water purification tablets, sanitary pads, containers and rechargeable lamps.
The United States Department of State announced last May aid worth $100 million in “direct humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people, which would be distributed in coordination with the Catholic Church and other independent and reliable humanitarian organizations.”
The United States has been pressuring the island’s government since last January to introduce profound economic and political reforms. As part of this escalation, it imposed an oil blockade that has significantly worsened the structural crisis that the country was already suffering and reinforced sanctions against vital sectors of the economy.
