Cuba received a new batch of humanitarian aid of USAconsisting of 600 food and hygiene kits, for families affected by the scourge of Hurricane MelissaThe Catholic organization Caritas reported this Wednesday.
This donation channeled by Catholic Relief Services (C.R.S.) members of that humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States delivered it to the director of Cáritas Cuba, Carmen Maria Nodalat the international airport Antonio Maceo of Santiago from Cuba (east).
In a message on social networks, Caritas Cuba described the donation as a “concrete gesture of the christian charity” that the affected families of the diocese of the provinces of Holguín and Las Tunas, both in the eastern part of the island, will receive.
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“This fraternal fact testifies to the love and service of Christ by contributing to alleviating the material needs of those who suffer the most,” added the institution in charge of distributing aid to the neediest families in eastern Cuba.
This shipment is added to others humanitarian operations previous ones that began to arrive in mid-January by air and sea from the United States to those affected after the passage of the Hurricane Melissa through the eastern region of Cuba in October 2025.
A network that includes volunteersthe parish, diocesan teams and local religious orders are responsible for the delivery of donations according to “the degree of affectation and vulnerabilities“to “single mothers with small children, older adults, people with disabilities and people with reduced or no mobility,” as explained by Cáritas.
In principle, this aid from the Government of Washington was announced for a value of three million dollarsbut in February it reported sending an additional item of six million dollars.
Donations have included rice, beans, oils sugar, water purification tablets, pots, kitchen utensils, blankets and lanterns.
The hurricane crossed the eastern part of the island at the end of last October with category 3 (out of 5) on the scale Saffir-Simpson with winds of 200 kilometers per hour and rainfall of up to 400 millimeters in some parts of the country.
According to the evaluations of the cuban governmentits impact did not leave fatalities, but there were numerous material damage to more than 116 thousand homes, also 600 state medical infrastructures, more than 2 thousand educational centers, some 100 thousand hectares of crops and transportation, telecommunications, electricity and water supply infrastructure.
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