nnenThe American activist Medea Benjamin, founder of the organization Code Pink: Women for Peace and the Cuban-American professor Carlos Lazo, leader of bridges of lovealong with various activists from that movement, traveled last weekend to the provinces of Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba to deliver aid to pediatric hospitals in those territories.
In Santiago de Cuba, the donations reached the north Doctor Juan de la Cruz Martínez and south Doctor Antonio María Béguez children’s hospitals in this city. In Guantánamo, the delivery was made at the Pedro Agustín Pérez pediatric hospital.
The activists traveled from Miami carrying the load consisting of 3,000 pounds of powdered milk that will provide a month’s supply for hospitalized patients in each of the three centers.
In addition to milk, they donated around 100,000 Tylenol tablets (acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol) distributed among the three hospitals.
This medication is an analgesic and antipyretic, indicated for the treatment of mild to moderate pain and fever.
“Our contribution is a grain in a sea of needs. We gave little but, on the other hand, we received a lot: The love of doctors, health personnel and Guantanamo residents! “He wrote Lazo on his social networks.
The professor, who lives in Seattle, Washington, maintains a mobilization agenda to promote the elimination of US sanctions against Cuba.
The professor thanked “all the people of good will, Cuban-Americans, Americans and others who made the purchase and delivery of this donation possible.”
Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo and Holguín are the three territories in eastern Cuba that have so far received this aid of powdered milk to guarantee breakfasts, at least for a few weeks, in the current conditions of shortages that the island is suffering.
During the previous year, the group added similar donations in pediatric hospitals in Havana, Pinar del Río and Matanzas.
the bread machine
In Guantánamo, the group visited a Children’s Shelter with no filial protection to take a domestic machine for making bread, flour and yeast.
For a few hours they shared with the children and those responsible for the Home, whom they taught to use the machine.
lechepacuba.com
Code Pink and Puentes de Amor maintain a fundraising campaign for this purpose through the page lechepacuba.com in which they hope to continue gathering the means to reach children’s medical centers throughout the island.
Most of the monetary contributions with which this project is implemented come from Cubans residing in the US, many in Florida.
The organizers of the campaign have also thanked the Cuban emigrants in various countries of the world and the Americans who donate and participate in the monthly caravans against the blockade of Cuba.
