There’s on online directory of not-for-profit institutions with recognized programs of so-called humanitarian and educational cooperation with Cuba. These groups are funding the castro dictatorship because the aid benefits the regime, and not the Cuban people. For example, goods supposedly donated for poor Cubans is confiscated by officials and sold in Cuba’s state controlled stores at high prices. Educational cooperation is one-way; thousands of American college and high school students have traveled to Cuba for so-called academic programs that are nothing more than propaganda programs. The dictatorship has made millions from these programs that are of zero benefit to the “education” of Cubans.
The list includes groups like MADRE; their web lists almost 2 million dollars of supplies and medicine they donated to groups in Cuba like the Cuban Red Cross, a misnomer, because the real Red Cross is denied entry to Cuba. Here’s part of their response to the recent enforcement of the travel restrictions:
MADRE and the Federation of Cuban Women
Both MADRE and the FMC have consultative status at the UN and have collaborated in the international arena to call for an end to the US embargo, which denies Cubans access to essential medicines and food.
A blatant lie, as food and medicine are exempt from the embargo.
We saw on last nights Hannity & Colmes the dire condition of healthcare in Cuba. Ask Cuban doctors now in exile how medical supplies are diverted to places like Venezuela for Cuba’s medical missions, wherein Cuban healthcare workers and medical supplies are diverted to earn good will and support for the regime. Ask the average Cuban who can’t find aspirin to buy how much donated medicine they have received from the Cuban “Red Cross.”
The Directory of US-Cuba Cooperation is here, and the Directory of US-Cuba Educational Exchanges is here.
H/T: Aymee
I certainly believe that alot or most of items sent into Cuba are confiscated and used to benefit the regime and not the people BUT there are organizations out there such as my own A CHILD’S LAST HOPE which I have just started and am in the middle of incorporating in which for this very reason rather than pay thousands to have items sent in by companies that deliver to Cuba I will personally bring into Cuba myself and will personally deliver to children in need.
There is also an organization in Kingston, Ontario who also personally bring in supplies and take on a project each year to accomplish such as this year they are building a new roof on a senior citizens home.
So it must be kept in mind just as there is good where there is bad….where there are organizations sending in supplies being confiscated there are non-profit organizations bringing in supplies directly to the source.
I certainly believe that alot or most of items sent into Cuba are confiscated and used to benefit the regime and not the people BUT there are organizations out there such as my own A CHILD’S LAST HOPE which I have just started and am in the middle of incorporating in which for this very reason rather than pay thousands to have items sent in by companies that deliver to Cuba I will personally bring into Cuba myself and will personally deliver to children in need.
There is also an organization in Kingston, Ontario who also personally bring in supplies and take on a project each year to accomplish such as this year they are building a new roof on a senior citizens home.
So it must be kept in mind just as there is good where there is bad….where there are organizations sending in supplies being confiscated there are non-profit organizations bringing in supplies directly to the source.