Together with the Qatar Development Fund, UNICEF Cuba launched a two-year project to rebuild 72 schools and 272 damaged homes for him Hurricane Ian in Pinar del Río, in addition to improving maternal and child nutrition.
With financing of one million dollars, the initiative, according Granmafocuses on the municipalities of San Luis and Consolación del Sur. It includes roof and carpentry repairs in 72 schools, water and sanitation improvements in 76 educational centers, and the installation of electric pumps to guarantee drinking water.
It is also They will rebuild the roofs of 272 homes of families with school-age children, all through the project Better education, health and hygiene in the Cuban province of Pinar del Río.
UNICEF and @qatar_fund They join forces in a project that will benefit more than 9,000 girls and boys in Pinar del Río.
✅ 72 schools will be rehabilitated
✅ 270 homes repaired
✅Maternal and child nutrition will be strengthened🔗 https://t.co/NyvP2kFNfM@UN_Cuba @MINCEX_CUBA
— UNICEF Cuba (@UNICEFCuba) October 15, 2025
The project prioritizes nutrition through the distribution of powdered milk to more than 38 thousand people and supplements to about 10 thousand pregnant women.
To advance the project, health professionals will be trained in breastfeeding and anemia prevention. “The project will allow us to rebuild and strengthen the educational infrastructure in Pinar del Río, where the effects of Hurricane Ian are still being felt,” said Alejandra Trossero, Unicef representative in Cuba.
Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and the plans of Cuba and Qatar, This effort will benefit more than 9 thousand children, ensuring them schools in better conditions and access to essential services in a region prone to receiving the onslaught of hurricanes.
This is an initiative that reinforces post-disaster recovery and local resilience through comprehensive solutions, he adds. Granma.
At least until May 2024, a year and a half after the disaster, More than 40 thousand houses had not yet been recovered in that Cuban province.
The figure, even though it represented less than half of the more than 102 thousand homes affected by Ian in the Pinar del Río territory, “leaves several dissatisfactions, since the numbers only represent 59% of the total at the provincial level,” recognized then a newspaper report Granma.
Until that date, the greatest progress had been made in the recovery of partial roof collapses (77%) and total roof collapses (51%).
In this regard, that media outlet recalled that “to eradicate Ian’s impacts on the housing system”, the Pinar del Río authorities established “as a limit” a period of five years, together with work to “resolve the damage from previous events.”
Until then, the towns most affected by Ian maintained worrying recovery percentages: Pinar del Río (55%), Consolación del Sur (53%), San Luis (46%) and San Juan y Martínez (44%).
In this last territory, where “Hurricane Ian left 72% of families without homes,” partial (1,425) and total (2,032) collapses did not exceed 20% recovery; while the partial and total roof damages were at 69% and 45% recovery, respectively, according to the official media.
Ian, a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, in addition to homes, also left severe damage to electrical networks and agriculture, particularly in the strategic tobacco sector.
