Caritas will distribute aid in two Artemisa communities
The shipment that arrived in Havana includes 700 food kits and 700 hygiene packages for vulnerable families.
A U.S. aid shipment for Caritas Pinar del Río landed October 8 at José Martí International Airport in Havana. Bishop Juan de Dios Hernández Ruiz and Abel Castillo López, the organization's director in that diocese, received it.
Distribution is planned at the Candelaria parish and in Quiebra Hacha, a community belonging to the Mariel parish. Both localities are part of the Diocese of Pinar del Río but are located in Artemisa Province.
Caritas volunteers visited homes before coordinating delivery. Selection gave priority, among other groups, to older adults living alone, pregnant women and nursing mothers with identified risks, children under five in precarious conditions, and people with disabilities or confined to bed.