Beautiful gestures of solidarity with Cuba are being carried out by Canadian and Cuban friends living in that country, with projects that will combine actions to achieve greater effectiveness throughout the process of collecting resources, storing and paying for transportation.
The above was known at a meeting of the Holguin delegation of Icap, the representation of Mincex and Public Health, with the leaders of these projects, who also visited the province of Granma, with full agreement that this interrelationship will favor the common objective of increasing aid to Cuba in the midst of the difficult situation caused by the intensification of the economic blockade. U.S. government financial and comercial.
Julio Fonseca, from Granma, who has lived in Canada for 31 years, is Vice President of the National Network of Solidarity with Cuba in that country and presides over the Juan Gualberto Gómez Association of Cubans living in Toronto, considers this unity of actions very useful, because the number of people who want to join the humanitarian aid to a country as supportive as Cuba is growing.
“Since the first container I sent during the dengue pandemic, there are already 12, of 40 feet each,” says Fonseca, and “although sometimes we think that there are symbolic donations, due to their volume, we receive expressions of gratitude for what they represent in medical services, for example, as we were informed by directors and professionals of the hospitals, Pediatric, Lenin and Surgical Clinical“.
Jennifer Raymer, director of the Together for Cuba project, in London, Ontario, has been collaborating with Cuba for 11 years and has created her own storage space, for which reason, she can be a key point in this alliance that they organize to increase humanitarian aid that, as she mentioned, can be done more frequently through Canadian tourists who support, bringing suitcases, briefcases and bags.
This charismatic woman is excited about her first visit to Holguin, like Fonseca, although she adds many to other provinces, always receiving the gratitude and human warmth of Cubans, she acknowledged.
And also playing an important role in this strategic alignment will be the prominent trade unionist Ben Lefebre, who lives in the city of Irognois Falls, in northern Ontario and is a member of the Calixto Garcia Brigade, as well as Sandra Shore (who accompanies him), from Winnipeg, capital of the province of Manitoba.
He belongs to the Unifor Union, the largest in the country, with more than 320,000 members, with a predominance of the private sector, which can make important monetary contributions for the transportation of the resources that are received, including the shipment of containers to the destinations agreed with ICAP.
Lefebre has extensive experience in these actions, due to his status as founder of the Calixto García Brigade and as a protagonist of the Container for Cuba project, for two years.
In this way, the Canadians Julio, Jennifer and Lefebre, together with Sandra Shore, return to their country with greater purposes in the solidarity aid they provide to Cuba, where their altruism is so appreciated, as expressed in the meeting held at ICAP, the delegate Lupe Isabel Fernández and María del Carmen Noris Mariño, in charge of international relations in the provincial directorate of health.
Translated by Radio Angulo
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